Should Athletes Be Paid?

No Doubt,LeBron James salary is way more than most people who work for regular jobs get regular paid amounts of money while athletes get big paid amounts of money. We get entertained by them. But mostly, they shouldn't get paid as much money. At this point, athletes are paid way more than people who save lives. Should athletes deserve getting paid this much? Some athletes go on big vacations and are still getting paid even when they don't play in their games.

In America sports wherever there is people, there will also be sports. Sports have played a major role in American history. To some people sports is all they have. It is just the way that things are. The issue in sports now is that the NCAA exploit the sports world and the very backbone of the corporation is the poorest. It is an issue that has been around for quite some time now. The issue is that the sports world face is the fact that college athletes are not paid, although they perform in a multibillion dollar industry. The NCAA basically has a monopoly on college athletics, and generate about one billion dollars a year. College sports are extremely demanding both in and out of season, and these athletes put their future on the line. The NCAA should be legally obligated to compensate athletes, based solely on the fact that the money made, is from their performance.

The question of should student athletes get paid is an argument that is growing in debate in recent years. Mostly pertaining to college Football and Basketball. Especially when the revenue generated from these sports rival those of its professional counterparts. Some would argue that receiving a full athletic scholarship is payment enough. Or, student athletes are no different from any college student working their way through college. However, these student athletes are not guaranteed full scholarships and deal mostly the same pressures of athletes that make their living playing these sports.

The highest paid Cubs player made around 19 million dollars a couple of years ago. The most money a doctor can make per year is around $500,000. 19 million dollars is a lot more than $500,000, but the person making that much is just paid to play baseball. Professional athletes should not be paid such high amounts because other people who work harder do not get paid half as much, nobody actually needs that much money, and other people who are struggling need money more than they do.

The star player on the soccer team, slowly, walks not trying to win the game. No matter what the score is he knows he will revive a shiny trophy at the end of the game. With different effort, the player could improve and turn into an even better player. Recently, there has been debates over whether kids should receive participation trophies. I believe that there should be no more undeserved trophies given to players.

Australians have always taken great national pride in their prowess across a variety of sports from netball, to cricket, to swimming. But the country’s performance has become more inconsistent in recent years amidst tough competition and higher sports spending by rival nations (Financial Times, 2016). This has sparked vigorous debate about what funding system we should use and where this money is best spent. Some consider Britain’s Lottery Fund as a better alternative to our own, which is a national lottery that funds the majority of the UK high-performance sport’s. (The National Lottery, 2015) Advocates of adopting this system believe it would help to fund our elite athletes to compete more successfully at an international level and also assist getting our country out of our current health crisis by encouraging

Wouldn’t it be great to earn millions of dollars a year just by playing your favorite sport? The athletes themselves believe so. But do they really deserve this much money? In my opinion, they don’t deserve it at all. In my mind, you should be paid by how much your job contributes to society. If they are making that much they need to at least be good role models to children that play sports around the world. All that money could go to much better causes and jobs that actually help people and our country.

Athletes are some of the most admired human beings on the planet. This is no different for college athletes, even though they are not yet at a professional level, they are looked at as very respectable, model members of each university that they are apart of. Collegiate level athletes are responsible for many millions of dollars of revenue for many large universities, this very fact brings up the question are college athletes being treated fairly? Should the athletes that spend much of their time in college training day in and out be paid for their efforts?

There are elite athlete that are paid millions of dollars to perform their craft at a national level. These players have millions of people watching their every move, on television, the internet, and at their stadiums. Each player is an individual with his or her own thoughts. Even if there are 12 players like in basketball, or 53 like in football every player thinks, and acts on their own, and do as they please. Professional athletes must have some sort of influence outside of their respected sport. In this day in age where one minute someone can say something that contradicts with someone else ideals, and then the next they are ridiculed by social media or talked about for a week on sports media outlets the next. These athletes are becoming more relevant to the average person, because of the exposure that social media has given them. Even if the average joe does not watch any kind or sports they can still recognize top athlete’s names, or faces. Professional athletes know this, and some are true to their titles, and are simple professional, and keep out of the spotlight as much as possible, and just of their job. However, there are some that want the attention off the field for their own gain, whether it is for new endorsement deals for a bigger social media following. Then there are players that take the spotlight they are given to talk about huge issue in society and talk about their beliefs and views, which in turn can be looked at as a good role models.

Although there are many athletes that spend money on frivolous activities. They could be spending on the kids that don't have no shoes or that are starving to death and have to walk to school barefooted because they can't afford shoes. The should donate money to them and stop sending it on frivolous activities.

Who do you think earns more money, a soldier going out into war fighting for this country’s freedom or a professional soccer player? If you thought it was the soldier, well you’re wrong. Many professional athletes and entertainers earn large sums of money, even more than doctors or soldiers and things like that. To me, I honestly don’t think that is right because these professional athletes and entertainers don’t risk their life or help others in any way, there are more important jobs out there, and most of these people honestly don’t really care about the money at all.

First of all, athletes and entertainers get paid an excessive net worth, only to play a game. Players for sports associations, such as the NBA or the NFL, get paid over two million dollars a year. That is an excessive amount of money to be awarded for dribbling a basketball down a court or catching a football.

There are athletes who do their best to master their regular event and they have a dream to enter the Olympic games. Not only athletes, there are artists who draw various paintings for more than 4 hours and everyone tries to find their own methods in order to make a new kind of painting that never existed before. Artists have to finish their own unique artwork while athletes have to compete with other amazing athletes all over the world. So, I disagree with the statement that governments should spend more money supporting the arts than supporting athletics such as an Olympic team because athletes are people like a member of the National Assembly and they live far away from their family to engross in their games and practices.

The average physician makes roughly $191,000 a year, which is a tenth of what a professional athlete makes for playing a game ("Physician: Salary"). A doctor also has to go to college for four years, then turn around and go to medical school and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars, whereas to go to the NBA a player only needs one year of college experience. Doctors save lives daily and they make a considerable amount less than what a pro athlete makes. Doctors are considerably underpaid for the value of work that they put in compared to athletes. A surgeon or doctor who repairs a brain, heart, or limbs, and saves people’s lives every day, doesn't even get close to that amount of money. What is ironic, is that many of the times a doctor will be helping an athlete rehab so that they can get back on the field or court and continue to get paid

Professional athletes salaries are a lot greater than the average person. According to Bustle.com, “Tom Brady made $14,800,000 in the 2014-2015 season. An average Massachusetts teacher only makes $72,129 a year.” That is just how much Brady made from his contract with the Patriots. He also had many sponsorships and partnerships with big companies like Under Armour and Aston Martin. (Source 4) Even the President of the United States only makes $400,000 a year. He makes many big decisions for our country and yet he makes a small percentage of what professional athletes make. (Bhagat)