Why does soccer player cost more then a writer?

by Martina Harvanova

Just as the top sport players in soccer, football or ice hockey tend to switch the home clubs, so the artists change their home stage, movie company or publisher. However, there is an interesting fact that follows the transfer & the enormously different values of the main subjects.While the probably most known sportsman on the globe, David Beckham, was worth $50 million while his first transfer from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2003 and with the current value reaching unbelievable rates, other publicly known people and their skills and knowledge don't cost even one percent of the Beckham's value. Maybe you have started thinking why somebody should be more valuable than a person whose name has actually become a worldwide famous brand. Well, there are some who dispose of the potential, but unfortunately it wasn't enough to meet the realization. A great novelist, the first ever writer that won the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in a single year, Richard Ford can be one of those. Although his famous works, such as The Sportswriter, Independence Day or The Lay of the Land, didn't remain forgotten both among critics and readers, his value still doesn't mirror his potential.The 64-year old novelist decided to switch the publisher despite the 17-year fruitful relationship. Therefore, Alfred A. Knopf has been left and switched to Ecco, a literary imprint of HarperCollins. Richard Ford chose the new publisher for his three next books - for two novels and a collection of short stories. His first novel with Ecco, scheduled for 2010, is tentatively titled "Canada". The story should sketch the Saskatchewan prairie and local issues of revenge and violent retribution.The question is, who is more worthy. Is it a soccer player whose day-to-day practice costs much physical strength, or an intelligent writer who mediates his message to masses? The social justice can't be seen so easily and therefore, the financial equity won't be solved. It is just a thing to conceive.

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