Wouldn’t it be amazing to make millions of dollars by playing one game or tournament? Well famous athletes feel they do. Many people feel that professional athletes are extremely overpaid. People feel professional athletes are getting to much money in a society where incomes are traditionally based on the value of one's work. Average Americans work standard hours and get paid a dismal amount compared to an athlete.
Professional athletes make millions of dollars every year and it isn’t fair for those out on the streets that don’t make money close to a pro athlete. If all athletes would pay an amount of taxes for social needs it would not only help people such as the homeless but also it would improve society and the way it is looked at. For example, take downtown Hastings in Vancouver, there is a tremendous amount of homeless people all crowded in this one area making it look horrible and unsafe for people. If pro athletes distribute a small amount of taxes for social needs, there wouldn’t this type of problem. The money taxed would be used to pay for homes where the homeless could stay and live, rather than have them on the streets.
21/11/13 Should footballers be paid more than soldiers? Ikrah Batool Is it really fair that footballers get paid so many millions more than a soldier does in a single year? Thousands of soldiers put their lives at risk for the safety of your country, slaving day in day out with minimal rest, sleeping in the horrendous heat and fighting in the freezing cold in the night. Whereas footballers just train for ninety minutes a day and then go home to their nicely warmed and cooled pad and rest. And this is what footballers get paid hundreds of thousands of pounds a week for!
A Critique of “Do Professional Athletes Get Paid Too Much Money?” In his article “Do Professional Athletes Get Paid Too Much Money,” Mihir Bhagat is for the argument that professional athletes are making too much money. He believes that the athletes do not deserve the immense amount of money they are being paid. Professional athletes are paid too much money for a “job” that contains little to no value in our society. Bhagat starts off his piece by making a point that in today’s society, salaries are usually based on the worth of a person’s job (1). According to Bhagat, one’s pay should be earned by economic importance and value.
Therefore, many athletes are willing to risk it all by taking performance enhancing drugs to be the best in their profession mainly for three reasons: the pressure to perform, the life style, and the desire to be the best. Athletes have to deal with pressure to perform by their coaches, owners, and by others playing his or her position. Coaches want the athletes to do well because more Johnson 2 than likely if the athletes do well, the team will win. Coaches are under more pressure to win than players because their jobs depend on winning games. If the players don’t perform well; coaches will look at other players to help the team win.
If you run a business where your budget is $100,000, and you're paying someone $110,000, then you're overpaying them because you simply cannot afford it. However, if your budget is $100,000 and you pay someone $100,000, and then because of their success or drawing power your budget increases, you're no longer overpaying them as you can now afford it. That is quite often the case in professional sports; a team is in a seemingly unproductive market, signs a superstar athlete at a high price, and then they make money because of the financial pull of that athlete. Take the Minnesota Timberwolves for example; they had a poor market for basketball until they had Kevin Garnett for 10 years in the area of $15 million per year. During that time, the team made money, now they traded him away and the attendance drastically dropped, and the team is unsuccessful.
However, this has threatened the true meaning of the game. It has given rise to scandals involving players and media portraying being a good athlete will get you by with anything. While some people take the position that commercialization corrupts sports I believe there are probably more positives than negatives regarding commercialization in sports, but the negatives that are present are still worth talking about. Ultimately the biggest downfall of commercialization in sports is the craziness of all the advertising that goes on through sports. For example, the Super bowl, companies pay millions of dollars to get their perfected thirty-second commercial on the screen of the millions watching and the next day the majority conversations are not even about the game but about which commercial was the best some people even admitting the commercials are the only reason they
Professional athletes are some of the most admired, most popular people on earth. They have been the center of entertainment for decades. However, so have their salaries. Over the years, it has become increasingly more evident that professional athletes seem to be playing less for the love of the game and more for the love of the pay check. Professional sports are no longer played on grass, dirt and hardwood floors but on calculators and cash registers.
Are athletes getting paid too much? One side says they deserve the money they receive for playing professional sports. The people who think other wise don't understand how the lifestyle of a professional athlete really is or who would get the money we spend if the athlete's didn't get it. They just see those huge salary numbers and think that it is unfair that the general working class doesn’t make that amount of money. Professional athletes are some of the most dedicated and hardest working people in world.
Many question if professional athletes deserve the salary that many are of them are receiving. Indeed professional athletes work hard for their money, but so does any police officer, teacher or anyone in the medical field. Each of these three professions show value and should be paid more than any pro athlete, that are basically for entertainment purposes. Professions that risk their own life, save life, or teach life are the most precious and should be receiving the million dollar contracts. In a society where some crucial careers are overlooked and underpaid, athletes are undeservedly overpaid.