Should we pay professional athletes more? The problem is are Professional athletes paid too much? There are many opinions on this issue. The owners should pay the professional athletes more money to counter the fact that they can be injured and the time spent away from their family. The skill of the players is undoubtedly the best in the world. Job security with the athletes doesn’t exist. The injuries that the athletes can endure can ruin their career and also their life after the sport. To conclude
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Do professional athletes get paid too much? In my personal opinion: No In this modern era this is an ethical issue that comes up more and more often. This has been brought up especially in times of economic hardship and the recession whereby families are really struggling to make ends meet with unemployment‚ delay of retirement and general reductions in disposable income. During this paper it shall be discussed how the ethical issue of high wages came about‚ why it is an issue‚ who is affected
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Money is the economic fuel upon which our world runs‚ but human nature inevitably exploits it for personal gain at the expense of others. Without a standardized monetary system‚ society today as we know it could not exist. A catch-22 of any social or financial system is that inevitably a handful of individuals will gain too much control. Conversely‚ a system in which the individual is not free to gain wealth/control as he pleases also leads to the same end result. In our 21st century North American
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people are entitled to protect themselves. If we don’t have the right to bear arms‚ then gas-station cashiers would not be able to protect themselves and the money in the cash register. Another example is that if someone breaks into your home to steal from you or hurt you‚ how are you going to protect yourself and your belongings? The police take too long to get to your home‚ so we need our right to bear arms! While it is important to protect ourselves‚ it is also important to hunt. It has been a source
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to eight figure salaries. One of these groups is athletes. Professional athletes get paid far too much money and they shouldn’t be paid as much. Here is a good question: why are luxuries paid more than necessities? “It is a sad commentary on our societal values that these entertainers are taking in seven figure while teachers‚ police officers‚ and firefighters make less than one percent of the income of some athletes (Hjlem 12).” The money athletes are getting paid should be given to all the people
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Are professional athletes overpaid? This question continues to permeate conversations from the board rooms to locker rooms; to street corners and beyond. How much is too much money for an athlete to earn. Folks will argue that the money could be spent on increasing teachers salaries as they are responsible for sculpting the minds of the American youth. Athletes make more money in one day than most Americans will make in a lifetime. New York Times best selling author David Epstein posed the following
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football‚ basketball players that get paid millions for just playing a game. Some of the people that make so much money donate to charities. Others just use the money to make themselves feel good. Some of the players sit on the bench all year long and still get paid millions. First and foremost‚ athletes shouldn’t get paid so much because of all the homeless children in the world. Athletes are paid millions each year to just play a game or sit on the bench and watch others play. There are numerous
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Are Professional Athletes being Paid too Much? An Editorial on the Overlooked Salary Difference Matt Crandall SHS Junior Walking through the halls of Sally High one day‚ my ear caught the words of two young individuals debating over an interesting topic. It was a discussion on the large pay difference between what they thought were hard working Americans and jobs of the entertainment market. As I continued to think more in depth about this current discussion that had just been overheard
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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
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How much is too much? With gas prices soaring‚ the housing market crumbling‚ poverty rates rising‚ and the country sinking into more debt by the day‚ money is on a lot of people’s minds right now. Millions of people are struggling to put food on the table while celebrities are signing multi-million dollar contracts for movies and sports. Many entertainment and sports personalities have very high incomes‚ while most people in "ordinary" professions like nurses‚ doctors and teachers earn only
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