“One, if you try to evaluate the salaries in terms of desirable social goals, it doesn’t make any sense. If we had a different kind of society, an ideal society, and the primary goal was to conquer cancer, if that was the thing to be given most priority, then you would see to it that cancer researchers had the highest compensation. And teachers and so on. In that kind of society, the ballplayers’ salaries wouldn’t make any sense in terms of social contribution.