craig wrote:Bobby has earned over $28M in his career. I'm sure he's gone, obviously. But man, I wonder how much happier the salary-difference will make him by moving out? The purpose of earning money is to make life better and happier and more secure. Not sure "settling" for $3+ million isn't enough for the security factor. And I'd imagine that he's never had a better and happier year in all his career. Obviously he's going to go, but it wouldn't surprise me if next February he'll look back and have some second thoughts.
That's just the conventional wisdom in those players environment, that the ultimate goal is to retire with as much money as possible... it's very hard to think for yourself when the echo chamber around you says "this is the right thing to do". In my experience people regret those things many years later (if at all). Understanding happiness is surprisingly hard, isn't it?
