Someone who has a massive Nike contract for the foreseeable future says complaining about pay is dumb? Maybe if he wasn't making any money he'd have a different take on that.
That thought flashed across my mind, but it’s probably more fair to consider his answer in the specific context of a track star complaining about not making the money available in some other pro sports.
NFL guys play 17 brutally punishing regular season games each year. The average career is less than five seasons and most walk away with health issues that surface later in life.
NBA players have 82 physically demanding regular season contests during each regular season.
Elite distance runners seemingly race only 8-10 times per year (less if your run for Bowerman Track Club) and appear to put more energy into avoiding each other than racing each other. In some regards, the football and basketball players hold full-time jobs while distance runners are gig workers on Fiverr that work when they feel like it.
Instagram was alright for a while, but then they suspended my account and demanded a photo of me holding a hand written 6 digit code. That's never going to happen.
I had a completely empty profile, just followed a few athletes. Never commented, liked, PMed or anything. Absolutely zero activity apart from a few follows.
why is Rojo so obsessed with this kid? we get it, you’re his fanboy. can you start threads about other runners more instead of Jakob threads or Josh Kerr talking smack about Jakob threads?
No, I can't as other runners aren't good enough to get featured articles written about them almost weekly that are interesting.
"If we start comparing ourselves to American basketball and football players, you're heading down a dangerous path. It's something we can't do much about.
"I think money is the wrong focus. Our job is to train as well as we can and perform, not count notes in the bank. You don't need anything,"
And on social media:
"You get stupid in the head from being on Instagram. I end up in the algorithms myself, but I try to narrow it down to the best of my ability. I think it's important to distance yourself from other people in order to focus on yourself.
Hey Rojo
Speaking of quotes you love
What did you mean here? Good post?
"My thought exactly. Hate is more powerful than any drug out there today!"
Rojo replies - "Good post. I think I'll merge this with the other thread or should I let there be two threads?"
Harrisons run tonight is proof that running on PURE HATE can make you go crazy fast. Imagine if Bolt had hate, he had maybe 50% hate last year at Beiijing..so not pure, sub 9.4 if he had pure.
Someone who has a massive Nike contract for the foreseeable future says complaining about pay is dumb? Maybe if he wasn't making any money he'd have a different take on that.
Agreed on the Instagram comment though.
He was training like a pro long before that.
ya he was. on mommie and daddy's dime. dude has never had to work a "real job" in his life. he looks too fragile for that.
I suggest you stop encouraging harassment of altruistic people like me trying to benefit the world! Mind your own business, do you thing and let me do my thing the way I know best!
Someone who has a massive Nike contract for the foreseeable future says complaining about pay is dumb? Maybe if he wasn't making any money he'd have a different take on that.
That thought flashed across my mind, but it’s probably more fair to consider his answer in the specific context of a track star complaining about not making the money available in some other pro sports.
Well said, dear John, you do make a pertinent point here! Do like, subscribe and follow my profile for more advanced systems of knowledge and understanding, God-centric no less!
Look Mr Anonymous, first of all, do have some politeness to show me your good name! Second, I was just trying to show even our good Rojo how clairvoyantly or distinctly good I am at understanding and grasping what is illusion and what isn't, or, the different tiers of illusion some higher and closer to the truth than other lower and further ones!
This benefits all LRCers, all human beings, the earth and the cosmos all in one! I also forgot to add that the blue light wavelength emitted from LED screens from cell phones, computers and TVs also contribute another layer of anthropogenic EMF oxidative stress and inflammation on the endocrinal pineal gland which produces the most important hormone, arguably, in the human being that of which is MELATONIN!!! With better melatonin regulation due to avoidance of anthropogenic EMF blue-screens Jakob can possibly make more HGH naturally, increase lean muscle mass, promote better sleep, immune function and nervous system or brain health in general. All these contributes to making Jakob rest and recover better which then catapults his improvement much further!!!
So as you can see, all these benefits come on top of benefits from avoidance of anthropogenic RF frequencies used to access social media like facebook or Instagram!
Thank you so much for your kind support!
P.S Instagram itself as a social construct that's abstract CANNOT AND DOES NOT harm the human nervous system, never will!!! It's the surrounding anthropogenic RF and EMF infrastructure that goes into establishing and constructing Instagram that delivers the killer poison!!!
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Agreed, people on LRC and the world over need to learn and differentiate the illusion of cause and effect. What most people believe, including Jakob is the CAUSE of his stupidity or harmful effect is really only the ILLUSION OF THE CAUSE and not the actual underlying cause which is far more invisible, more stealth, more silent, more TAKEN FOR GRANTED, more SURPRISING!!!
Throughout history, mankind's downfall and failures including in times of wars and battles have been commissioned by a series of SURPRISING factors that flew under everybody's radar. COVID mRNA vaccines are one of them, and before that for a 100 years and counting anthropogenic RF and EMF and pharmaceutical drugs! Btw, pharmaceutical medicine drugs are the 3rd most killing after cancer and heart attacks in America and GB. So you can imagine the same for the rest of modern nations like Japan, Russia, China, Taiwan, Australia........
I hope everybody on LRC is very impressed with not only my knowledge and understanding of the lexical 'cause' but also my seeming clairvoyance surrounding it!!! I'm here to serve you, you can count on me thank you!
Cheers
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good thinking. very level-headed response, especially coming from someone who is financially successful himself at such a young age.
comparing to others will always lead to frustration, entitlement, and ego.
look at xqc (#1 streamer on twitch/kick since 2019).
he got his income leaked in 2021 during the infamous twitch earnings leak.
he earned $8.4 million over the span of 26 months (aug 2019 to oct 2021).
a 25 yr old earning about $4 million/yr playing video games.
then, he made world headlines when kick announced a $100m (yes, 100 million) contract for him to stream on their platform for 2 years, non exclusively.
in what world is it possible for a person in their 20s to be making $50,000,000+ per year --- playing video games for fun and watching youtube videos / tiktoks?
he sounds young... wait until he's 45 with kids, wife... he will think about money quite differently. not that we all get greedy, i just think we realize what the world is and isn't.
I know its a crazy idea but why don't you move out to the middle of nowhere and leave your letsrun comments behind along with all of your surrounding anthropogenic RF and EMF infrastructure. For being so enlightened among us feral folk you stoop to talk about some really dumb shxt.
NFL guys play 17 brutally punishing regular season games each year. The average career is less than five seasons and most walk away with health issues that surface later in life.
NBA players have 82 physically demanding regular season contests during each regular season.
Elite distance runners seemingly race only 8-10 times per year (less if your run for Bowerman Track Club) and appear to put more energy into avoiding each other than racing each other. In some regards, the football and basketball players hold full-time jobs while distance runners are gig workers on Fiverr that work when they feel like it.
Someone who has a massive Nike contract for the foreseeable future says complaining about pay is dumb? Maybe if he wasn't making any money he'd have a different take on that.
Agreed on the Instagram comment though.
Right, there’s a rather large difference working with a 7-8 figure contract living in norway coming from a fairly wealthy family than a 5 figure contract and having be based out of the west coast or east coast USA which many pro groups are.
I don’t think people realize this but there are lots of athletes on the lower to mid tier of pro caliber coming out of college that could have ended up really good who choose not to sign and just get a job with the degree they have or pursue higher education because it would pay significantly more than any kind of offers they received, and actually push them over the liveable wage threshold. There are pro athletes you know the name of and pay attention to that have to rent a small house with like 5 teammates like they are a broke college kid cause that’s what they can afford.
The fact that some athletes are making millions a year under the same brand/team as the ones making 35-40k a year absolutely doesn’t sit right with me but such is life I guess.