In other words, the world has been out of balance for some
time now and the symbol of that has been ridiculous compensations for superstar
athletes like A-Rod, and for top employees in the financial industry. The results showed up in destructive ways,
where baseball records were obliterated by drug inflated statistics, and the
financial industry changed their focus from supporting industry and business to
creating wealth in ways that had little or no benefit to the economy, and the
entire country got involved in chasing unrealizable financial goals (too many
people bought houses they couldn’t afford), overextending themselves, and
falling into financial ruin.
So, from just the standpoint of wanting to see the world go
back into balance, I am very happy to see that major league baseball has
finally banned Rodriguez from playing until 2015 because of his taking PEDs
(Performance Enhancing Drugs). I would
like to see a real crackdown on PEDs in all sports and have sports return to
the competition between outstanding athletes rather than the shows put on by
robo-humanoids.
But even deeper than that is how Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Lance Armstrong, and
the entire generation of PED athletes made their hundreds of millions of
dollars. They cheated. And I don’t like it. In fact, I don’t watch it.
Baseball and football are both obviously being populated by
drug pumped super-humans, and I don’t enjoy watching phony sports. I watch golf instead where PEDs have no role
that I know of, mainly because PEDs won’t be able to help someone chip and
putt. Tiger Woods has developed a pretty
buffed up physique and strength, but I don’t think he is on PEDs. Plus, his power advantage in the game was
back in his first few years when he was a skinny whip-like kid. Today he has no particular distance advantage. It’s not his strength that has made him win
so much on tour.
In my ideal world, top earners would make a couple of million
dollars a year in sports, in finance, in medicine, in industry. That would make them wealthy but not put them
in an experience so far outside the realm of normal people that they become
almost a different species on the planet.
I think that the huge gap between the super-wealthy and the
masses puts the country out of balance and sets up a dangerous environment where the country is run as a plutocracy on one side, and the country is susceptible to political demagoguery
and radicalism on the other. And it puts
people like Alex Rodriquez and Lloyd Blankfien so out of touch with the
experiences of common people that they have no way of gauging their impact
on the world.
As the Beatles said long ago, "Get back Jojo..."
