Born with a silver spoon leading to her bourgeois and upper-crust early life.
Really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Biles
Serena and Venus Williams started off in Lynnwood, CA--not exactly Holmby Hills. Their father was a tennis player and coach, and his family were sharecroppers. Truly the Rockefellers and Pritzkers there. Can't get a more privileged upbringing than that. Except for the wise move to upscale Compton. Their achievements came from inborn ability, skills resulting from training and practice--and that took investment of time, effort, and a lot of money. Can't watch a youtube video or read "The Inner Game of Tennis" bought used for that.
How's this? Let's have top NFL, NBA, NHL athletes--as well as Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, and other singers--work 40+ hours a week in working class jobs. Bad Bunny can run an excavator. Taylor Swift, she can be a high school music teacher. Billy Eilish can be a greeter at Walmart or something. The athletes? They can go and coach high school or middle school, full time jobs + a lot of extra time in after school practice and on weekends. Granted, in TX they get June off, but practice resumes in July (same for things like band).
You want to be a top athlete, your job is training to be an athlete. You are a top athlete, your job is to continue to train to be at the top of your game. Maybe you get paid; maybe you get sponsorships; maybe you do what a lot of kids do to break into the field, you bust your butt in hopes of a payday. Dak Prescott may have been born wealthy or not, but to keep in shape for what he does requires time that a 40-hour plus a week job, with the usual dropping of kids off and picking them up, doing dishes and vacuuming and mowing the yard just wouldn't allow.
Does he deserve his multi-million dollar contract? From a strict $/hr perspective, no. His pay isn't retirement benefits or stock options or such, it's just pay. Yet few complain about Billy Eilish or that Bad Bunny's stashed maybe $100 million away. Most working-class 31-year-old Joes don't have that kind of reserve.
Without that training, I want to see Sunday football feature South High's football team versus North this week (Eugene, OR), Grand Oaks versus Woodlands next week (TX) because the standard of play wouldn't be much better than that.
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