So many of these former pro runners/ "influencer" types grow up super rich and privileged, which leads them to believe they can do no wrong and thus never take accountability for their actions.
Merber is a great example - after growing up spoiled with his dad's $500,000 salary he doesn't understand the value of money, and thinks it's no big deal to defraud actual hard-working athletes who grew up with nothing out of millions of dollars.
So many of these former pro runners/ "influencer" types grow up super rich and privileged, which leads them to believe they can do no wrong and thus never take accountability for their actions.
Merber is a great example - after growing up spoiled with his dad's $500,000 salary he doesn't understand the value of money, and thinks it's no big deal to defraud actual hard-working athletes who grew up with nothing out of millions of dollars.
So many of these former pro runners/ "influencer" types grow up super rich and privileged, which leads them to believe they can do no wrong and thus never take accountability for their actions.
Merber is a great example - after growing up spoiled with his dad's $500,000 salary he doesn't understand the value of money, and thinks it's no big deal to defraud actual hard-working athletes who grew up with nothing out of millions of dollars.
It's called affluenza. Merber's grandiosity and glibness are showing. Another facet into his personality is his NJ-NY "slick" driving. Interpret that he's pushy, forceful and a danger to the road.
When GST is 30 million in debt, everyone in the company knows about it. MJ is not smart enough to keep it a secret.
Merber and others knew about it and continued to make the athletes run for money that GST did not have and knew they would not ever have.
THEY KNEW THEY WERE MAKING THE ATHLETES RACE FOR ZERO DOLLARS. THAT IS UNFORGIVABLE. NOBODY SHOULD TRUST MERBER OR MJ EVER AGAIN.
i thought the athletes got half? so the question is if they could have made as much money racing somewhere else (minus a bit of season disruption)
This is the absolute dumbest argument. 50% of what was promised to them was stolen. If you win a $10,000 scratch off ticket and they only give you half, you are going to be PISSED and get a lawyer.
Also it was a MAJOR season disruption. Grant Fisher got injured from it. The extra racing contributed to Kerr's injury at Worlds. Nuguse burned out from it.
China has executed 11 members of the notorious Ming family criminal gang, who ran mafia-like scam centers in Myanmar and killed workers who tried to escape, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.
Terms of payment for races that I ran were often 90-120 days post race. Many of these agents weren't picking up the phone asking about money until after the LA was cancelled and things started to smell fishy.
