How much is 500 dollars?
The obvious answer is "well, it's 500 of one dollar", but what I'm actually asking is how contextual are we willing to get over a wad of cash sufficient to fund, say, 3-4 trips to Five Guys, or 15% of the cheapest Yamaha jetski?
Does Marvin Harrison, Junior deserve more than 500 dollars for someone to scan his face, upload it to whatever evil algorithm that spits out EA video games, and have millions of people play him? What about Alec DelSignore? Or you?
Because EA Sports is reportedly betting that for college football players, 500 dollars is such a large amount of dollars that there's no way that both the Alec DelSignores and Marvin Harrison, Juniors of the world won't both be equally satisfied by five crisp bills with Benjamin Franklin's face on them:
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