As Russell Wilson looks for a new home after being released from the Broncos with history's biggest ‘dead money’, there is renewed talk that quarterbacks, and football players in general, are often overpaid. However, talk about someone being overpaid has, at some point or another, touched on almost every profession in this world.
For example, here is a viral thread in the AskReddit community, with participants actively giving examples of occupations whose lucky owners earn over 100k, but at the same time the job itself is either easy to do or makes no sense at all, according to netizens. So please enjoy this selection from the thread’s most interesting postings, prepared for you by Bored Panda!
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It just so happens that if you glance at the list of professions that netizens consider unnecessary or clearly overpaid, then there will be many managerial positions, as well as intermediaries like real estate agents or salespersons. And, of course, officials at various levels - especially since the trend towards the so-called ‘digital state’ is gradually spreading more and more in the world, where many bureaucratic positions are simply replaced by an application on your smartphone.
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On the other hand, for example, various managerial positions in IT also do not always mean that a person receives insane money literally for nothing. In the end, an IT architect or a team lead is a person who, in the vast majority of cases, has gone through the entire career path from a junior developer, and now they are paid not so much for their skills, but for the knowledge and experience acquired during this long way. Knowledge and experience, which, you see, are worth the money.
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“We must not forget that any market, despite its regulation by various government agencies, still remains, let’s say, a living functioning organism that pretty quickly responds to any challenges,” says Olga Kopylova, Ph.D., associate professor of economics at Odessa National Maritime University, to whom Bored Panda reached out for a comment here. “And if there are a lot of people in a certain profession who receive their salary, then most likely there is a steady demand for this profession.”
“We can say as much as we want that this or that occupation is ‘useless’, but if it’s a profession related to business or commerce, then, most likely, it is still needed for the company. Of course, it often happens that management ‘produces’ various managerial positions, the presence of which is not always justified, but this, it seems to me, is more a special case than a rule,” Olga summarizes.
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Returning to Russell Wilson, I will still tell you that he was definitely overpaid in Colorado. 11-19 for two years in Denver, for $245M, in fact - if this is not overpayment, then what can we call it? However, quarterbacks and athletes are not on this list at all. But who else is? Well, please scroll this selection to the very end yourselves and maybe add your own ideas in the comments below.
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