Finding out the kind of salaries professional athletes are
receiving was definitely higher then I had originally thought. To read that A-Rod
is paid $20 million a year is pretty crazy and I can see why people are
outraged by it. However, that is the way things work. The economy necessitates a
large range of incomes to remain balanced and functional. Everyone cries about
their average income salary while athletes and celebrities are paid millions of
dollars a year which makes me think about all the Americans living under the
poverty line. There are thousands of articles written on the absurdity of professional
athletes but what about the hard working manual laborers we pass on the side of
the road everyday to work? Americans complain about their nine to five jobs
when in reality, they sit behind a computer all day and push papers. I think
that it is just as insane that workers who build are bridges and means of transportation
are paid a quarter of the salary then those who only leave their desks for
lunch breaks. I think that this article reveals the deep-rooted natural
selfishness that we all have brewing inside. If anyone had the opportunity to receive
those kinds of benefits that they write bitter articles complaining about, they
wouldn’t even have to think about it.
I agree with you completely in my post I wrote pretty much the same thing you did in yours. I am outraged that these athletes make so much. I feel some of that money even a little portion should be going into the health field or social work. Social work primarily because people in that field have degrees and have so much stress on them and they do so much work that they are doing a better service to humanity and she be compensated appropriately to prove that. Overall, the point that I am trying to make like you have made and pretty much everyone can agree on is the fact that these athletes are compensated way to highly and something needs to be done about it.
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