Are Sport Players Overpaid

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Are sport players overpaid? I think some are very overpaid. Some athletes can get paid up to a million dollars per game. Teachers can get paid up to fifty thousand dollars a year. Sure athletes get injured, entertain, and are role models, but teachers are exactly do the same. Why should athletes get paid more when teachers and other people do more for the country. Speaking of country why don’t we talk about the world for a moment. The only thing athletes do for the world is entertain us. Guess what tons of other jobs entertain too. Also by entertaining, athletes are helping the world from depression. But how else do they save, protect, or help the world. They don’t, but teachers, military, and other hometown heroes do those things, because

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