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 sport and film industry are considered to be one of the most profitable activities and nearly everyone dreams to become a famous athlete or a movie star and receive much money for it. These careers are surrounded by numerous legends and myths related with the easiness of the work and the lack of any knowledge and skills. Nearly everyone thinks that it is easy to be an actor and play his role in the film or to be an athlete and run all day long and do nothing special connected with the ordinary or common professions. Evidently, many people speak about the unfaithfulness of the human society and criticise actors and athletes because of their payment, which is often equal to hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars. A famous movie star can receive several millions of dollars for a single film as well as a football player has a one hundred million contract with a certain club.
Name Teacher Class Date Why are professional athletes considered excessively paid? Should or shouldn’t they be getting paid as much as they are, and what are the affects of this problem? Professional athletes may not be as overpaid as you think. Professional sports are a central portion of American society in today’s world, and without them there would be a huge difference in the economy. Also, athletes have to work extremely hard to make it into a professional league, let alone be a superstar.
The 1920’s were a transition period for many sports. It wasn't anything like todays athletes making big money, using steroids, or promoting a crazy diet. Sports that had up until that time been largely amateur events caught the eye of promoters who could see an opportunity to capitalize and make money. The professional football league, golf tours, and tennis circuit were organized. Media publicity ensured large crowds and guaranteed the financial success of the ventures, allowing new stadiums to be built and providing steadily increasing salaries for the sports stars.
Overpaid Athletes The argument that athletes have way too large of a salary in our society has been going on for years. Most people like to argue that they are overpaid. Professional athletes are not overpaid because of their great skill in what they do, their devotion to their profession, and the fact that pro sports is one of the most profitable businesses in the world. Pro athletes are the most skillful people in the world. period.
With athletes getting paid millions of dollars some parents will push their kids to become professional athletes and cause them to even dislike the particular sport they were pushed in just because their parents were thoughtless of the child’s needs. Also, with the amount of money athletes get it causes many people to push their body and even use illegal steroids in search of becoming a professional. However, there are some positives to athletes and possible reasons why they are paid as much as they are. There are several side effects to pushing a kid too hard in sports. Low self esteem from not feeling as though they are good enough, stress from all the high expectations, and a serious impact on physical health from all the exercise and pro hormones can even cause your organs to even shut down.
Although the feminist movement was on the rise, so was the divorce rate. This decade was where the divorces increased the most, and families started to fall apart. In the 1980s family was not the most essential priority. Just like in the book “Blow” by Bruce Porter, George Jung was not the best father figure. His job, which was smuggling cocaine, made him money hungry and was more interested in making more and more and more money that family wasn’t his top priority in life.
Christopher Gardner has invested the family savings on “Portable Bone Density scanners," an apparatus twice as expensive as normal x-rays, with practically the same resolution. These devices mean the world to Chris; however, they are difficult to sell, as they are only slightly better than the current technology, but at a much higher price. As Christopher tries to figure out how to sell them, his wife Linda, played by Thandie Newton leaves him. Even after things couldn’t get any worse Christopher loses his house, his bank account, and credit cards. Chris is a very unlucky man, but the undying love he has for his son, and the continuous dedication Chris has to getting a better life, helps him to overcome extreme difficulties, even when forced to live out in the streets with his
There are a few individuals, however, who have acknowledged the inhumanity going on, and they are the ones who walk away from Omelas. They know that the treatment of this child is not worth the happiness that they have had. In this way, they are the heroes of Le Guin’s story because they are willing to give up their happiness for the sake of someone else. They could not live in a place and be happy with the knowledge that their happiness is to product of someone else’s misery. The theme of Rand’s “Anthem” is just the opposite.
Some inherently wealthy people work hard and have jobs, but others waste the money on something stupid and have enough money they don’t have to word a day in their life. Most of the movie stars and athletes these days are obsessed with material goods. Some television stations have shows showing society what celebrity has the biggest house and how much everything they own is worth. Celebrities are trying to show us what it is like to live the good life, and most teenagers become jealous and are not thankful for what they have. The good life to the celebrities is having the most stuff and the most money.