AJ Medinger Amber Leichner FP3: Persuasive Essay 11/28/14 Being paid too much? Wouldn’t it be great to make nearly $100 million a year simply to play a game? Tiger Woods, along with many other professional athletes, certainly think so. But do these athletes really deserve all that money? In my mind, I think absolutely not. Professional athletes are making too much money in a society where salaries and wages are usually based on the value of one’s work. In today’s society, one should be paid according to the job’s economic position and their value to society. Teaching is one of the most economically important jobs because our future economy relies on the education of its youth, but teachers are paid extremely less than the average professional athlete is. In fact, each basket Kobe Bryant scores earns him …show more content…
The professional sports industry is a multibillion dollar a year industry. Between ticket sales, TV and radio deals, advertising, and merchandise sales, professional sports is one of the most profitable businesses in the world. Team and leagues also run websites that have added to the revenue of professional sports. According to an article from cbcsports.ca, Canadian professional sport leagues reported $2.2 billion dollars in team revenue. That number is much higher here in the US. Professional sport teams, with the exception of the publicly owned Green Bay Packers, are not required to open their books to the public. But in Canadian teams are producing $2.2 billion, you can be sure that American professional teams are producing10-15 times that amount with our larger amount of professional teams, bigger stadiums or arenas, more TV time, and a larger overall population of sport fans. The players who fill those stadiums attract fans to their TV’s, radios, computers, and sell their jerseys and team apparel deserve their cut of this $25-$35 billion dollar