The ballplayer would be making half of what he is without crony capitalism
Originally Posted by WTF
And he'd be making about $13/hr if he weren't lucky enough to be born with a natural talent. Doubly lucky that this talent he was fortunate enough to be born with is rewarded so handsomely by the society he was born in - when the vast vast vast majority of societies value it as being worth all of zilch.
If he's a libertarian, as COG suggests, he ignores all that and thinks he's just better than everyone else.