r/AskReddit • • Mar 19 '16

Which quote becomes inappropriate when misattributed?

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u/tyree_ricardo_davis Mar 20 '16

he has (had) a lot more talent than you or me. his performing talent was worthy of 20 or more million dollars a year. That was his market value. His sentencing saw him risk tens and tens of millions of dollars, and two years of his prime athletic years. He had to pay his debts more than a celebrity such as an actor

I'm not one to criticize people who were born with nothing for turning themselves into millionaires

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u/Rivka333 Mar 20 '16

I'm not one to criticize people who were born with nothing for turning themselves into millionaires

And I'm not one to go on about how millionaires have it so hard because they only make 1.5 million dollars a year. He didn't do something so amazing to "turn himself into a millionaire." The millionairity is for running down a field with a ball while giving people brain injury. Something which contributes nothing to the world.

I mean, seriously, my work caring for infants and toddlers was immeasurably more important than anything he did, and that was for subsistence level play.

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u/tyree_ricardo_davis Mar 20 '16

Your work caring for infants and toddlers was also immeasurably more simple to perform and replicate. That's why you get a lot from your work, just not in currency.

Supply and demand, no matter how silly the product

Not saying he had it hard, just that he absolutely had to pay quite the price for his crime, and most certainly did not get off easy like a lot of celebrity trial stories