Why Are Athletes Overpaid

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Are Athletes Overpaid? Do you think athletes deserve to be paid more than the president of the United States? Athletes are overpaid. A football player should not get paid $71 million dollars to play a game. That's just like saying I should receive seventy one million dollars to play a game in my backyard. Just for fun. Sports are amusing to some people. But should athletes earn that much for entertaining us? Yes athletes get hurt and they get taken care of. Yes construction workers get hurt but it depends on them getting taken care of. Athletes don't need to pay to receive care. Other people that do get hurt need to pay to get taken care of.
Nurses who dedicate their lives to help others do not get paid as much as Lebron James. Yes athletes

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