A Response to “Do Professional Athletes Get Paid Too Much Money?” The thesis of this article is that professional athletes make way too much money for simply entertaining the public. Men and women in the military, who get paid very little, sacrifice their lives everyday and never know if they will get to see their families again, while professional athletes get paid substantially more to throw a ball in a hoop. Some athletes also take drugs or steroids, which is an awful example to teach our children, which could be the professional athletes of the future. Professional athletes make way too much money for their own good. “In fact, each basket Kobe Bryant scores earns him equivalent to the average classroom teacher’s yearly salary,” according