Re:Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives [pdf]
by reroute1 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:52PM
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Maybe teachers can scale with technology? Maybe we see some of this with online courses, MOOC's? If that were monetized in a way to give the proceeds directly to the teacher maybe that could work? Although some teaching does not lend itself well to that environment, in some cases classrooms and 1 on 1 interaction is something that cannot be substituted.
I agree for all the examples you give, there's nothing clear like there is for athletes and artists.
Because their labor can be very cheaply duplicated by broadcasting the game to millions of spectators.
*> Where's the money actually coming from?
Ads, merchandising, and ticket sales, like you note.
Professional sports players are, economically, in the same category as musicians and actors. They produce media and the digital era means media can be duplicated at virtually no cost, so the value of their labor can be easily multiplied by a very large constant.
Police, doctors, and teachers provide their labor to individual humans in realspace which is much harder to scale so, unfortunately, their salaries reflect that.