Pro sports are already heavily intervened in by the government. Who funds the stadiums? The government. Who threatens to move to another city if the government won't build them a new stadium? The owners. Who gets special exemptions from anti-trust laws? The leagues, which in any other industry would be a Cartel.
Don't pretend the owners of these teams are some Randian archetype of the "noble Capitalist in existential conflict with the evil government".
I never suggested the team owners are noble capitalists lol. I simply asked him how he would go about preventing someone from earning a specific amount of money.
Pro sports are already heavily intervened in by the government. Who funds the stadiums? The government. Who threatens to move to another city if the government won't build them a new stadium? The owners. Who gets special exemptions from anti-trust laws? The leagues, which in any other industry would be a Cartel.
Don't pretend the owners of these teams are some Randian archetype of the "noble Capitalist in existential conflict with the evil government".
I never suggested the team owners are noble capitalists lol. I simply asked him how he would go about preventing someone from earning a specific amount of money.
How do you do it? By making it a condition of all those perks granted by the government. Don't want those conditions? You don't get the perks.
Should you do it? That's another question.