entertainment?
I mean like an outstanding engineer, lawyer, doctor, investment banker, or business owner?
What about just an engineer, lawyer, doctor, investment banker or someone who created a successful business -- forget about being outstanding.
Or what about just getting into a selective college, like an Ivy League school? This would still pretty much ensure a decent job.
Why am I asking?
These guys have money, money that they should be able to use to help uplift the race if only by uplifting their own family in the sense of using their sports-created wealth to raise children who can make a good living outside of sports and entertainment. Obviously, it doesn't help the race if these dudes buy mansions and cars and their kids just grow up to live off their wealth (this won't last for more than a generation or two, and in most cases dude doesn't have that kind of money anyway), or worse fall back down into the poverty many of them were raised in. That's not how a stable (through generations) upper middle class or middle class family is created. Even if their kids become pro athletes themselves, that is still not something that can be counted on to continue the family's middle class (or higher) standing in future generations.
Sports-created wealth should be used, at a minimum, to provide the resources to create a solid middle class life for the players' descendants, but I never hear of any of their kids doing anything.
I mean like an outstanding engineer, lawyer, doctor, investment banker, or business owner?
What about just an engineer, lawyer, doctor, investment banker or someone who created a successful business -- forget about being outstanding.
Or what about just getting into a selective college, like an Ivy League school? This would still pretty much ensure a decent job.
Why am I asking?
These guys have money, money that they should be able to use to help uplift the race if only by uplifting their own family in the sense of using their sports-created wealth to raise children who can make a good living outside of sports and entertainment. Obviously, it doesn't help the race if these dudes buy mansions and cars and their kids just grow up to live off their wealth (this won't last for more than a generation or two, and in most cases dude doesn't have that kind of money anyway), or worse fall back down into the poverty many of them were raised in. That's not how a stable (through generations) upper middle class or middle class family is created. Even if their kids become pro athletes themselves, that is still not something that can be counted on to continue the family's middle class (or higher) standing in future generations.
Sports-created wealth should be used, at a minimum, to provide the resources to create a solid middle class life for the players' descendants, but I never hear of any of their kids doing anything.