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[rong]

Wayne Rooney is deserving of that money. Through his own effort he nurtured a skill that millions of people are willing to pay to see him perform. Those people pay that money willingly. If they didn't he wouldn't get it.

[OngBonga]

Wayne Rooney is deserving of that money. Through his own effort he nurtured a skill that millions of people are willing to pay to see him perform. Those people pay that money willingly. If they didn't he wouldn't get it.

No Wayne Rooney is not deserving of that money, but I get why you think he is. I don't blame Rooney for taking advantage of all the morons who think kicking a ball is a measure of success. But it definielty goes a long way to demonstrating how fucked up the world is. Rooney earns like £250k a week or whatever, it's sick money. I get £500 a month for doing shit all and I'm made to feel like I'm a bad person for it.

[Luco]

Wayne Rooney is deserving of that money. Through his own effort he nurtured a skill that millions of people are willing to pay to see him perform. Those people pay that money willingly. If they didn't he wouldn't get it.

ehh, you were doing alright up to this point.

Footballers wages are the victims of iterative process, it's the same with the top jobs in banks and business - there's an ever increasing spiral between the top firms to outbid each other in order to attract the best, and it's led to over inflation of the true worth of the position. It's a 'creep' in price that isn't specific to football. If I worked my bollocks off my whole life as an accountant the best I could hope for is maybe CEO of an international bank (£10m a year) by the age of 50 and I feel that paying someone £100m a year for any physical skill and sporting talent is just so, so wrong.

As for Ong, yes people living on benefits is a drain on the economy but it's not the biggest budgetary problem we have. IMO a bigger worry is that average lifespan is increasing faster than predicted and that retirement age is likely to go up again before I reach 65 (and even a second increase will not be enough to cover the massive pension deficit in this country).

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...-tax-r-001.jpg

https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...udget-2014.xls

I'm not really sure what you want from ong here, rong. He's admitted that he's living off us taxpayers, and you've admitted that it's a fairly meagre existence. Is it that he got your back up by framing his unemployment around some 1980s style anti capitalist rhetoric? Because I'm just not that bothered about the dolie bums