It’s not that MLB owners can’t afford to pay their minor leaguers a living wage. No, it’s just that they don’t want to.

they almost exclusively come from privileged circumstances to some extent

You mean like how Americans live in the top 1% of global wealth? You mean like how your very comforts are due to a system that exploits people overseas?

Socialists always want to level the playing field as long as they can get something out of it. Once the global poor are involved, it's never their problem.

It’s the fact that there exists a system that allows them to accumulate so much that’s a problem.

No. The problem is corruption and laws being changed to make it impossible for the playing field to be the same for everyone. The problem is poor social programs that don't allow people to get a fair shot.

The problem is not the fact that people who take massive risks can also make tons of money. And the problem is not that people have the freedom to spend money on whatever they want and if you make a product everyone wants to pay for you get to keep said money.

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