Almost half of Australia's elite athletes 'earn below the poverty line' - eviltoast
  • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You’re missing my point I think.

    Sure, a not insignificant number of sports stars have a background that’s considered lower class, but the number of people living below that poverty line that will become sports stars is so low I’m not even sure how many zeros go between 0.[…]1%

    Even if all of those people were top class athletes, there’s only room in the sports world for a few hundred of them at most.

    It’s not a realistic career path, it’s a lottery that requires high level athletic skill.

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      1 year ago

      No, I understand your point - it’s not like you are offering a particularly deep insight here.

      The problem is that you are taking my original comment too literally. I am not arguing that it is a realistic career path in terms of overall success rates. I am saying that, relative to many other career paths in which these people face massive systemic and social roadblocks, sport is the only realistic option to escape poverty.

      • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I see, my apologies.

        I thought you were trying to say it was a realistic way for them to escape poverty when you said it was the only realistic way to escape poverty.