Interesting new episode of South Park tonight.
Eric Cartman starts a lucrative 'Crack-Baby Basketball' League. He literally is making profit from the spectacle of tiny, ill infants fighting over (and pushing around) a ball of crack. The 'sport' is an instant internet sensation, and Cartman hires Kyle (a jew) to be his chief financial officer, and even gets a deal with EA sports for the video game rights.
Of course this is abhorred - and typical of Cartman. But then Cartman (or, the creators of South Park) make an interesting comparison: College athletes. The largest problem with Cartman's crack-baby basketball is he created the rule early on that the 'players' (babies) could not be paid. Of course, with the millions he was making off of them, should he not compensate the babies? Of course he should - but then again, shouldn't Colleges pay their athletes, especially when, in the US, sports teams are a driving force of income, and draw for enrollment, for the school?
It's an interesting point - students spend time and risk injury playing sports for an institution that heavily profits from them - and colleges and universities owe them nothing. Of course, many of the best athletes get full-rides based on their athletic achievement - but receiving this sort of compensation is not guaranteed. Cartman related this kind of work to Slavary; Hilarious.
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