azcatz11 wrote:UcanUwill wrote:It is all relative, 76k a year would be insane money to me even today, but in USA economy I believe it would be perceived low even for non athlete? When I was growing up, my mother raised me, what at a time, dollar being way stronger, was an equivalent of maybe 1k per year...
That said, we need to remember how much bigger NBA salaries are, compared yo even other players playing same sport. Best non NBA players will get 3 mil tops, you can still buy good Euroleague player for 600k, and majority of pro basketball players around the world, are still way worse than a good Euroleague player. In my country, even some lesser known clubs players are nationally known, but I doubt many of them get 76k a year.
Vaidas Kariniauskas, who even made national team, I mean he only made it cause like 10 best guys refused to play this past year, but he still made it, and famously ended up trashing team USA and Austin Reaves in particular, I believe his contract prior to that game was below 30k...
You can make $40k a year flipping burgers in California. Literally
Yeah, it is crazy how different the economies are. When I was working full hours, I was making maybe just around 11k a year, after tax, considering euro and us dollar is around the same mow which I believe it is. And recently, when I shifted to 50% work load, maybe I made over 5k previous year.
I know people in US who say they can't save on 120k annual salary, where to me, I would need to work over 10 years to make that, but since I do not live alone
i still save money. But granted, economy is
completely different. For starters if you renting in NY or LA, very likely your monthly rent in itself could be higher than what I made last year combined, plus all the other factors. I am sick person, and overall, I probably got lucky I am not an American, since that system is way harsher and if I was getting same help in US, even if I was making 10 times more, I would still be in huge medical depth most likely. Most medication here gave huge compensations and it always been like that, I need to only pay 5% of real cost for my medication and of course the treatment is free. In some US states even ambulance still cost money, where I had to be moved to hospital 130km away from home last Tuesday, and of course I did not have to pay.
I am a person who paid taxes for many years, but overall, I am one of those trash people who ultimately got more from government than I paid, and I feel shame for that for sure, but I really try to contribute when I can, which it is something, since in such socialist paradise, it is very easy to realise how actual job can be rather not beneficial at all.
We always had tourists and they always been amazed how cheap things are over here, but they forget the fact our salaries are probably 5 to 10 times smaller than theirs. But even the prices are not really that small anymore, for example in Poland, almost everything is way cheaper now, so over here we have many many people who spend a day driving to Poland just for shoping. And of course, lots of things have universal prices. Since I am in hospitals all the time, I figured f it, I will buy Steamdeck, ordered yesterday, and despite me making less than 6k a year and being sick, I still was able to afford Steamdeck that was 660 dollars.
So yes, everything is different from place to place and has strengths and weaknesses. I will probably never have fear of getting debt or losing my home, but on the other hand, I know that I will never get out of low class, that is just not a thing that will ever happen, and we aren't even pretending that things are different. Overall, current national fear has nothing to do with economy and salaries, but rather with looming likeliness of war. Until Russia, China and likely soon USA again, are ruled by people that ard there, the idea that our home will be destroyed and that we could ge killed seems more plausible than it really should be.
