The Remarkable Fools Letter

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Jim Dalling
Oct 12, 2023
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Common fools criticize athletes for being ‘overpaid’. I always chuckle at the this point of view. The arrogance to suggest that their perception of the virtue and value of an athlete is either 1: accurate, 2: enlightening or 3: impactful in any way, would be worthy of a chuckle if only there were something remarkable about this point of view.

So, for those of you who merely want to mewl on about the injustice of what a basketball player makes in relation to an elder care worker, I would like to invite you to click here and have a nice day.

Oh gee, you made it back.

Thank you!

Brendan Gallagher has played his entire career for the Montreal Canadians. Statistically, for years he was drastically underpaid in relation to other contracts in the league. He is fanatical to the extent that he has sacrificed his body almost to the point of disability for a game.

He played on the first and second lines and hand years of massive statistical totals. He always went to the parts of the ice where dude…

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