On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have not read the Daily Beast article. In his book Next Man Up about > the NFL, John Feinstein wrote that most NFL players vote Republican. > That's more surprising than game show hosts as a fair number of > players come from disadvantaged backgrounds. What the two groups have > in common is that they make a lot of money and are probably most > concerned about paying as little tax as possible. > I agree about the main explanation for any higher than expected frequency of conservatives among game show hosts as being explained primarily by their salaries. Athletes and entertainers, even (maybe especially) those from lower SES families, tend to be economic conservatives, as for most of them their wealth is almost entirely in the form of wages, which is taxed at the highest rate (unlike Mitt Romney). They often do not have the family habits, connections or knowledge base to restructure their wealth in ways that protect it from taxation, as truly wealthy people and corporations, do. Also, while high wage earners coming from low SES families are in actuality low frequency, and almost random, occurrences, from the POV of the high wage earner, it seems, since they succeeded through (what they perceive to be) talent and hard work, other poor people could too if they were only talented and hard working enough, so they should shut up and stop complaining. Very much like the guy who wins a coin flipping contest that started with 10,000 people and ends with him having flipped heads 13 times in a row. He becomes convinced he is just a particularly gifted and dedicated coin flipper, and the losers who attribute his victory to luck are just jealous and lazy. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
