Who gets bought…

Often the reason someone has paid a large amount of money for something is for the sole purpose of convincing you that what they paid for is valuable. When a sports team pays an athlete hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s you who they are actually buying: your curiosity concerning what all the fuss is about, your acquiescence to higher ticket prices, your belief in the team and its prospects. The team makes its money back, the athlete gets rich, and you, well…you pay for it all.