Why CR7 can make more money than any football player ever did.

segunda-feira, janeiro 25, 2016 David Barradas 0 Comments

From the Economist,

The tech economy is a ruthless meritocracy. “A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator,” Bill Gates once said, “but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.” The most talented workers can command princes’ ransoms. Google reportedly offered a star engineer $3.5m in stock to dissuade him from defecting to Facebook. And Facebook paid $1 billion for Instagram, mainly to hire its 13 employees. But in this business those who are merely good, rather than great, are expendable; they can expect to labour in obscurity while the stars get the credit.

In the internet age it pays big time to be good. CR7 can make more money than any football player ever did. why? because he is the best of all times? of course not. It's just that these days with you tube, Facebook, etc.... when you do well you have a huge huge audience. It pays to be popular. it pays to work hard like never not only is sports & entertainment but also in software as Bill gates mentions