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Athletes Are Overpaid Essay

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What if I told you that Lebron James made 71 million dollars last year.It seems to be a high price for being good a professional basketball doesn’t it? Professional athletes are just plain out overpaid.They make millions while nurses, firefighters, and even the president of the United States don’t even come close to that, secondly they can go on to be sports commentators, coaches, and even public speakers, and lastly there are jobs way harder than rigorous training and playing for millions of people. First of all, athletes like LeBron James Tom Brady make millions per year while caring nurses, brave firefighters and even the president don’t even come close to that.For instance the president who runs our country only “gets paid 400,000 dollars a year”.From Businessinsider.com. What has this country come to when sports players get paid more than the leader of this country.But some feel that they have earned it For example from Makinzie Carros’ “You Can’t Put a Price on Talent” “He’s broken the records of the greats like Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson”. “He’s a living legend”. However a record breaking scientist looking for a cure for a disease won’t make millions.
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