Athletes and Actors

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Professional Athletes and Actors are Overpaid Studies show that half the world lives on less than 2.50 a day, and 22,00 children die each year due to poverty. However, actors and professional athletes are paid millions a year. Professional athletes and actors’ salaries have been in debate for many years. Some say actors and professional athletes don’t deserve the money they make, are overestimated, and are bad role models. On the other hand, some say they are highly skilled and deserve their money because of all their hard work. Professional athletes and actors are highly overpaid because their skills are far less superior than many other professions including, doctors, teachers, firefighters, and police officers. Actors and professional athletes are overpaid because they do not have to risk their lives, while soldiers, policemen, and firefighters, risk their lives daily. According to the National Law Enforcement Memorial’s article, “Law Enforcement Facts,” statistics show that on average, 154 police officers die in the lie of duty per year in the U.S. “Firefighter fatalities in the United States, 2012,” an article in the National Fire Protection Agency stated that in 2012, 64 firefighters died in the line of duty in the U.S. Once, a 16 year old boy driving a Mercury Sedan collided into two power poles in Paso Robles on August 6, 2013. Tonya Strickland, an author in the San Luis Obispo newspaper described the scene, “It ended up being one of the most dangerous rescues of their careers.(...) They risked their lives to save that young man.” In other words firefighters forgot about their own lives and selflessly climbed into a death trap to save a young man’s life. While police officers and firefighters are risking their lives to save others and making a small amount of money per year, professional athletes and

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