Everything we do, started with an education. Somewhere someone decided to try and understand the world around them more and helped others understand too. This has been passed down to the very advanced society we live in today. And teachers power the young minds of the world. Charge them until they have enough battery power to bring them wherever they want to go. But, as many things, this is overlooked. And somehow, the factory that spits out the people that make the clocks keep ticking is paid in dirt. Teachers scrape by with average salaries of maybe $40-50,000 a year while a minimum salary of a major league baseball player is about $390,000. In 1930 during the Great Depression, Babe Ruth was making more than our teachers make today,$80,000. And last year during our countries most recent major recession, Alex Rodriguez had reached a total career salary of almost $200,000,000. But it's entertainment. and entertainment is value. Where am i going with this? Well if you are someone who doesn't give a shit about teachers and loves baseball, then how many of you baseball fans listen to music? How many of you pay for it? How many of you have downloaded baseball tickets from limewire? I'm sure if you could you would. And like us musicians, baseball players would not be able to make money anymore. And do you think they would keep playing baseball for you for free? No. they would all quit and complain about how they will not be able to be more financially secure than they already are. But musicians, no matter if we play for local friends amounting to a few legion hall shows a month or if we play for hundreds of people around the country/world a month, would rather be poor, dirty, and starving than ever stop doing what we love. So consider your ability to read and write, and consider the songs that play through your car stereo, your ipod, your computer, and your dad's record player that get you through everyday. What would you do without these things? What would you do without baseball?
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Entertainment
Everything we do, started with an education. Somewhere someone decided to try and understand the world around them more and helped others understand too. This has been passed down to the very advanced society we live in today. And teachers power the young minds of the world. Charge them until they have enough battery power to bring them wherever they want to go. But, as many things, this is overlooked. And somehow, the factory that spits out the people that make the clocks keep ticking is paid in dirt. Teachers scrape by with average salaries of maybe $40-50,000 a year while a minimum salary of a major league baseball player is about $390,000. In 1930 during the Great Depression, Babe Ruth was making more than our teachers make today,$80,000. And last year during our countries most recent major recession, Alex Rodriguez had reached a total career salary of almost $200,000,000. But it's entertainment. and entertainment is value. Where am i going with this? Well if you are someone who doesn't give a shit about teachers and loves baseball, then how many of you baseball fans listen to music? How many of you pay for it? How many of you have downloaded baseball tickets from limewire? I'm sure if you could you would. And like us musicians, baseball players would not be able to make money anymore. And do you think they would keep playing baseball for you for free? No. they would all quit and complain about how they will not be able to be more financially secure than they already are. But musicians, no matter if we play for local friends amounting to a few legion hall shows a month or if we play for hundreds of people around the country/world a month, would rather be poor, dirty, and starving than ever stop doing what we love. So consider your ability to read and write, and consider the songs that play through your car stereo, your ipod, your computer, and your dad's record player that get you through everyday. What would you do without these things? What would you do without baseball?
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