Re: Bill ComstockIn life we get our market value, not an inflated figure due to how hard we work.
I'm merely stating the economics of the situation as it relates to the supply and demand of work such as Bill's. In the free market we do not get paid in accordance with how hard we work but rather the market value of the work which we perform - do you think that Bill works harder than a 9-5 mom working at McDonald's for minimum wage? That seems to be what you are implying. But the market value of working at McDonald's is simply minimum wage and the market value of Bill's work falls far below what he is getting paid, assuming the information I received was accurate (job description + salary).
And yes I know how much Bill makes. I'm very networked within the industry and people talk. Just like I know who is dealing steroids, dealing recs at afterparties and everything else. It's an insult to my intelligence for you to think I'm oblivious to this. If you don't have an idea of how resourceful I am by now, you don't know nothing.
On the radio show Dave eluded to (or said directly - can't remember which) that female bodybuilders deserve to get paid more because they work hard. I would liken this to gardening people's lawns with tweezers and digging holes and filling them back up again and demanding big bucks! If work provides a certain amount of market value, payment is immediately related to that value. Professional bodybuilders work extremely hard and sometimes walk away with $0 in prize money. Would anyone here agree that they work as hard as Bill Comstock? I'm sure some do. My point is that hard work has no correlation with rate of compensation as far as the free market goes. If Dave had it his way, female bodybuilders would get paid more than they do. I understand your good intentions, but if you were to do that, it would destroy female bodybuilding as the industry would not be able to generate the revenue necessary to sustain it. The economy doesn't work in that manner.
As for Flex Wheeler's contest pictures not being good - I think they were perfectly fine and I think MD would have better spent their money training FLEX in photography and buying him a superior camera.
I offered to extensively advertise for MD as well as review the entire magazine for almost nothing (if not nothing) and got no reply.
Come on MD, for the longest time I was the big supporter.
I understand that those of you who are refuting my points are all experts in your related fields - Isaac in website design and hosting, Dave in bodybuilding and nutrition, and Ron in his profession. All I ask is that you understand that I am perhaps a little more educated than you in terms of economics just as you are more educated than me in your areas of expertise.
