Messi left the F.C. Barcelona soccer team, and Barça fans—and perhaps the entire city of Barcelona—is now mourning this loss.
Messi is going to Paris to play for the PSG, earning EUR 36,500,000 ($42,769,240) per season, and that is without counting advertising contracts and other incentives he will receive. It is half of what he had been earning so far with the Barcelona FC.
Football star Aaron Rodgers will instead renew his contract with the Wisconsin Green Bay Packers for four years, for an annual average of $ 33,500,000 (EUR 28,589,067).
Messi is going to Paris to play for the PSG, earning EUR 36,500,000 ($42,769,240) per season, and that is without counting advertising contracts and other incentives he will receive. It is half of what he had been earning so far with the Barcelona FC.
Football star Aaron Rodgers will instead renew his contract with the Wisconsin Green Bay Packers for four years, for an annual average of $ 33,500,000 (EUR 28,589,067).
The average annual salary, not the basic one, in Spain is $31,561 in the USA is $62,953.15.
The average worker in Spain would need to work 1,355 years to earn what Messi will earn in one.
In the United States, the average worker would need to work "only" 635 years to make what the quarterback makes in one.
I am a fan of the Barcelona soccer team by genes, and of the Green Bay Packers by adoption, but when faced with these numbers I can only feel sadness, some anger and perhaps a bit of guilt, for harboring occasionally some resentment against the fans of my teams "eternal rivals,” the Real Madrid and the Bears, when the reality is that I have much more in common with the vast majority of them than with the stars of my teams.
There are gaps that should not be justified neither by nationalisms, nor by national or local loyalties, much less by the vicissitudes of the free market.
Congratulations, I’d like to say. But not to Messi or Aaron Rodgers. Congratulations to the thousands and millions of men and women who work hard and hard, sometimes with two or three jobs, to be able to support their families, year after year, with dignity.
The average worker in Spain would need to work 1,355 years to earn what Messi will earn in one.
In the United States, the average worker would need to work "only" 635 years to make what the quarterback makes in one.
I am a fan of the Barcelona soccer team by genes, and of the Green Bay Packers by adoption, but when faced with these numbers I can only feel sadness, some anger and perhaps a bit of guilt, for harboring occasionally some resentment against the fans of my teams "eternal rivals,” the Real Madrid and the Bears, when the reality is that I have much more in common with the vast majority of them than with the stars of my teams.
There are gaps that should not be justified neither by nationalisms, nor by national or local loyalties, much less by the vicissitudes of the free market.
Congratulations, I’d like to say. But not to Messi or Aaron Rodgers. Congratulations to the thousands and millions of men and women who work hard and hard, sometimes with two or three jobs, to be able to support their families, year after year, with dignity.
