Why Athletes are Paid the Big Bucks

Why Athletes are Paid the Big Bucks

     Do professional athletes deserve to be paid more than the working class of America, consisting of people who keep our country and society functioning normally?  To the majority of the citizens of America, the answer would be yes because of our craving for entertainment. Personally, I believe doctors, teachers, police officers, and firemen deserve a much higher salary than men who play a sport that most of us have played in our adolescence.

     -Americans' value in entertainment overwhelms our care for teachers' salary.

Teaching, medicine, and law can all be taught over a period of time. This is different for sports though, since there is a very few amount of people who are naturally gifted with amazing athleticism. The amount of teachers, doctors, and cops in America overwhelms the population of athletes.  Most of us would agree that those other jobs are much more important, but we love watching the few extremely athletic humans compete against each other.