Are Athletes Paid to Much?
Are Professional Athletes 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 must train harder physically than other people, they must work even when they are not working, and their chosen profession sometimes entails great physical risks. Society believes that once a person is athletic they automatically qualify to become a world class athlete. Firstly, to become a top sportsmen or women in a certain sport, you need to have that special something, that something that separates you from the rest, this is called talent. Majority of society believes that once a person is athletic they are automatically classified as an athlete. An athletic person is characterized by or an individual involved in a physical activity or exertion in an activity. The most important criteria is to be somewhat athletic but an athlete is a person possessing traits, such as strength, agility, and endurance, which is necessary for physical exercise, especially those performed in competitive contexts. Many of these athletes have so many traits and abundance of that required talent that their abilities come naturally (Resnick, S. 2009). Athletes today receive large amounts of money for exploiting their talents and abilities and to play a sport in which they love and enjoy. Players have been known to make a lot of money, probably making more money then many of us ever will make. Society doesn’t actually realize what their jobs consist of and many spectators consider any sport a form of entertainment. Any profession in the work place who obviously make less then these athletes do are the one’s that are going to be jealous and don’t see how an athlete justifies his salary amount. The only other reason that I can think of that why a person may complain that professional athletes are paid too much is
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 must train harder physically than other people, they must work even when they are not working, and their chosen profession sometimes entails great physical risks. Society believes that once a person is athletic they automatically qualify to become a world class athlete. Firstly, to become a top sportsmen or women in a certain sport, you need to have that special something, that something that separates you from the rest, this is called talent. Majority of society believes that once a person is athletic they are automatically classified as an athlete. An athletic person is characterized by or an individual involved in a physical activity or exertion in an activity. The most important criteria is to be somewhat athletic but an athlete is a person possessing traits, such as strength, agility, and endurance, which is necessary for physical exercise, especially those performed in competitive contexts. Many of these athletes have so many traits and abundance of that required talent that their abilities come naturally (Resnick, S. 2009). Athletes today receive large amounts of money for exploiting their talents and abilities and to play a sport in which they love and enjoy. Players have been known to make a lot of money, probably making more money then many of us ever will make. Society doesn’t actually realize what their jobs consist of and many spectators consider any sport a form of entertainment. Any profession in the work place who obviously make less then these athletes do are the one’s that are going to be jealous and don’t see how an athlete justifies his salary amount. The only other reason that I can think of that why a person may complain that professional athletes are paid too much is
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