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As a little bit of a palate cleanser for the Annunciation shooting and Scotland
All Female Braveheart Remakechildren-with-knives fracas, I thought we could talk about the financial state of internet whoredom:Matthew Ball Xwitter Thread on OnlyFans Financials
(Mod question: If linking to a Xwitter thread, are there any standard operating procedures considering some people don't have it?)
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What actually got me to take the time to write this up was seeing this article on sports betting.
Sports betting, OnlyFans (etc.), and addiction level of marijuana use are, to me, the three horsemen of tolerated social degeneration. That these all disproportionately impact (there, I said it!) young males is all the more revealing -- society is still okay with disposing the disposables and is now more than happy to turn it into a multi-billion dollar industry.
Yes but there’s 2 million OnlyFans content creators and about 600 pro basketball players. The combined total salary of every minimum wage fast food employee in America far outstrips NFL salaries too, but that’s just because there’s so many more fry cooks than pro football players.
It might be a bit more fair to include minor league and semi-pro teams, but the number is probably still small unless you somehow counted college (and maybe high school) athletes. That would also bump the revenue to compare with somewhat.
Pro sports salaries are, like OF revenue, very unevenly distributed.
AFAIK minor league baseball players do get paid, but in other sports you either make it into the pros or you fund your hobby by coaching with no in between.
Out of curiosity:
Ouch. Very unevenly distributed indeed. The lower end is just over full time federal minimum wage and way under my state's minimum wage.
It's not great, though as I understand it it's better than it sounds because the organization picks up a lot of your living expenses.
I know someone whose husband bounced between the minors and majors for a few years and it was brutal. It was essentially a full time hobby where she was having to support both of them. And he spent most of their first couple years of marriage on the road in shitty motels while she was at school/working. It was only sustainable because they knew he only had a few years in him and had a degree to fall back on once they actually wanted to buy a house and have kids. She was willing to accept a few years of him chasing his dream, but only because they both knew it wouldn't be long term.
Which specific leagues do you mean? "The majors" in baseball means MLB, full stop (it's right in the name!), and that is decidedly not the lifestyle you're describing. Even a guy who's only in the majors for about two weeks a season and playing minor pro the rest of the time, making league minimum in the majors but not necessarily the minors, would pull down north of $100,000 a season (nearly half of it for the stints in the majors), plus a lot of all-expenses-paid travel involving good hotels and catering. So I assume you must mean something different from what you said.
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