A high-payed doctor earns 500,000 dollars per year after saving countless lives. An astronaut ranked in the highest level of NASA earns 107,000 dollars. A lawyer who has been defending people’s lives for 11 years earns up to 170,000 dollars. But how much money does a professional athlete make? Lebron James, basketball player on the Cleveland Cavaliers, earned 40,000,000 dollars just last year. Has Lebron James saved anyone’s life? Has he made an outstanding contribution to science? Has Lebron James sacrificed his life to defend others? The answer is no. Professional athletes are extremely over-paid for doing absolutely nothing, while others barely suffice eating the amount of food human-beings are supposed to consume. Athletes should be payed less because the people making the money don’t always deserve it,
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Basically, unless you’re preparing to be the next Stephen Curry, you’re bound to barely make ends meet in the economy. Basketball players aren’t the only athletes earning too much dough though. Football players, baseball players, even hockey players earn enough money to have a pool full of sharks in their backyard. This is already ridiculous as it is, but the fact that some athletes are still rude and disrespectful makes it ten times worse. Some like to use the counter-argument during this topic that it’s hard for athletes, because everyone’s watching them. The thing is though, most athletes don’t even try to be role models. You’d think that someone who got to swing a bat for a living and still make loads of money would be nicer to everyone around them. You’d be wrong though. Athletes don’t deserve the money, but with the attitudes that some have, they shouldn’t earn any money at all. For example, Kobe Bryant. The famous basketball player filed a law suit on his own mother for trying to clean some of his stuff out of her garage. What a
Basically, unless you’re preparing to be the next Stephen Curry, you’re bound to barely make ends meet in the economy. Basketball players aren’t the only athletes earning too much dough though. Football players, baseball players, even hockey players earn enough money to have a pool full of sharks in their backyard. This is already ridiculous as it is, but the fact that some athletes are still rude and disrespectful makes it ten times worse. Some like to use the counter-argument during this topic that it’s hard for athletes, because everyone’s watching them. The thing is though, most athletes don’t even try to be role models. You’d think that someone who got to swing a bat for a living and still make loads of money would be nicer to everyone around them. You’d be wrong though. Athletes don’t deserve the money, but with the attitudes that some have, they shouldn’t earn any money at all. For example, Kobe Bryant. The famous basketball player filed a law suit on his own mother for trying to clean some of his stuff out of her garage. What a