Should Athletes Be Paid Essay

In these Modern times, I don’t agree on the large salaries paid to athletes and movie stars. I am not against these jobs, but I feel more could be done with the salaries that are paid to these individuals. There are other work fields that are more serious and even harder than being an athlete or movie star.

Being a movie star is not an overnight process, just going to an audition can’t guarantee you a job on the spot. Most movie stars had to start off with an agent. They get a script, usually within twenty four hours of the audition and have to memorize and prepare a well developed character. Athletes also have a difficult time becoming professionals. Making it into the pros is very big and also not an easy thing to do, it takes hours of …show more content…
With that kind of money we could help those in need of homes, those with medical expenses they cannot afford. Almost every day someone in the military leaves their family to protect their country knowing there life is being put in danger, and they may never return home, still not even making half of what a professional athlete makes. Teaching is more economically important, because our future economy relies on the modern youth. Yet they are not even paying a quarter of a professional athlete's salary. For example, each basket Kobe Bryant scores are equivalent to the average yearly salary a teacher makes. The president is the most important man, he makes decisions every day that can affect people in critical ways, and he only makes four hundred thousand a year.

Athletes and Movie stars entertain the general public. If these careers were eliminated, there would be no affect on the economy. I think people like soldiers, doctors and teachers, deserve more than athletes, because they contribute to our society. It would be better to spend excess money on education, or in the medical field. In the times we are living in we should spend more money in helping the community and saving people's lives than investing in