Every basketball fan around the nation is experiencing great difficulty dealing with the possibility that there will be no NBA this season. It's unsettling and everyone seems to be taking their anger out on the NBA team owners, taking sides with the already rich millionaire basketball players. They're siding with them in hopes that they will get an even more exorbitant salary and end this lockout, in turn lashing out their anger out on owners calling them "greedy" and "money-hungry" people who don't seem to care about the game. The players are upset they were given an ultimatum and are willing to put their fans in a sports related emotional depression all because they don't agree with pay cuts offered by their owners.
Doesn't this sound all too familiar? Except in this situation, people get to choose their own terms. Everyone seems to be expressing their anger towards the owners like these negotiations are something new; this is how the world works. The NBA players are now in a situation which millions of Americans have been facing ever since the recession started but they didn't have a choice. Across the nation, people have seen huge cuts in their paychecks, some who even live paycheck to paycheck struggling to pay bills and feed their children. People have had to deal with ultimatums given by their companies with their jobs on the line. Unemployment checks are not negotiable. You get what you get regardless if it didn't match your checks before your company decided to lay you off. Do these regular Americans get to negotiate like our beloved NBA players? Did they get a chance to negotiate budget cuts which would then adversely affect their livelihoods and ability to properly feed and take care of their children.
Those who have the most money and control the nature of our employment unfortunately have a hold on us. Before you get angry at the NBA owners, take a look around and recognize that this is just the way of the land. Instead of getting angry that you won't see your precious NBA teams play, be angry that the people who have the most wealth have the most say. It's not fair to the NBA players and it's not fair to regular Americans. The difference is these NBA players can hire fancy lawyers and fight back. We can't. If professional athletes can get screwed over, then what's our future going to be like, those with the little voices but make up a majority of the population?
Food for thought.
Follow: @JusticeisBliss1
No comments:
Post a Comment