Reasons Why Athletes Are Not Overpaid

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Muhammad Ali can fight one match and winds up with 5 million dollars. -Johnny Bench and most people can't make that in 3 years. This is why athletes are overpaid because other jobs deserve more. And most athletes go bankrupt anyway. Other jobs get paid a 5th of what athletes get paid this is why other jobs should get more. Most athletes get paid around an average of about 66 million dollars a year. Athletes also lose their money then they have no money to retire with. Some contracts can be up to a million dollars a game. And in conclusion, that's why other jobs should make more. The reason why nobody trust athletes with money is because more than half of athletes go bankrupt. To be exact 78% of athletes go bankrupt. And ath have athletes

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