That's not comparing like with like. There are 20 La Liga teams, all of which are say in the top 200 football teams in the world. Adding Carmack to one of the

That's not comparing like with like. There are 20 La Liga teams, all of which are say in the top 200 football teams in the world. Adding Carmack to one of the "hundreds of thousands" of companies would be like adding Messi to your local pub team: it would make it better, you'd win your local league, but it wouldn't pay the $20 million a year that would make it "worth it". The number of companies that could consider hiring Carmack is maybe 1-2 orders of magnitude above those who could consider hiring Messi.