Pro Athletes Salaries

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Do Professional Athletes Get Paid Too Much? Healthcare workers save lives on a daily basis for sixty thousand dollars a year, while professional athletes receive millions of dollars merely to “entertain”. Athletes should be paid well because they are role models for society, they must work even when they are not working, and their chosen profession sometimes entails great physical risks. Firstly, to become a top sportsmen or woman in a certain sport, you need to have that special something, something that separates you from the rest, this is called talent. You can be born with talent or you can achieve it, either way you have a quality that is unique. That is why we have professional sports teams, for these unique people to show off their amazing talent and they deserve to be rewarded for that. Athletes today receive large amounts of money for exploiting their talents and abilities and to play a sport in which they love and enjoy. Society doesn’t realize what an athletes job really consist of, many think of it as just a form of entertainment. So many young kids, even adults, around the world, look up to athletes. We don’t expect movie stars to be role models, because their brand stories are so complicated and fragmented by the roles they play, which are more naughty than nice these days. Entertainment celebrities consequently have an easier time recovering from scandal because we assume scandalous behavior is part of their on-screen and off-screen lives. Athletes, though, always “play” themselves, in the same scene, and we only want to watch them if they’re performing well; we assume that athletic excellence requires discipline and control off the field. While they build their name playing the game they love, their offseason is a lot of work too. They spend their offseason building endorsements and making appearances places. Sponsorships are probably the most

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