Why do athletes get paid more a higher education workers?

Question

It's not fair. A athletes earns a whole lot more, compared to surgeons and lawyers. Why is this all they're doing is playing a sport. It's not fair for hardworking bright students who obtains a doctorate and master degrees to earn less than a athlete. Tiger wood made over 10 million this year alone, compared to a doctor with a doctorate degree who makes 4.5 million in a lifetime. You tell me why this is.

Also not to mention the great deal of learning lawyers and doctors has to go throgh. For a standard doctor or surgeon it takes up to 12 yrs of education. So you tell me 12yrs of education compared to a basketball player with no other forms of education but highschool gets 10x more money than a surgeon. Our country is crazy, it;s sad too. Teachers in my view should make the most money.

Answer 1

Its Not fair.
However, NFL makes billions a year in clothes, tv, etc. All that money has to go somewhere, might as well be the people playing the sport.
Its true for all the sports, they generate a lot of money.
But is is sad sometimes to see someone like Lebron who is 19 and made more already than i ever will.

Answer 2

We live vicariously through athletes and pay them well to get broken up on the field or finish a round of golf without tossing their clubs into the pond.

Teachers make students do things they don't want to do. Once graduation is accomplished, we relate our jobs to schoolwork, bosses as teachers and sports to recess.

We pay professionals to do the things we would rather be doing.

Now, imagine that there are no professional sports; only work. Imagine a crowd of hooligans with no arena. What will they do with all that spare time and enthusiasm? That's a question best left to a fiction writer with some background in social behavior but an accurate depiction wouldn't be a pretty picture, I'm sure.

We pay to see others have fun and/or get injured. In many cases, the people we pay are risking their lives.

From what I hear, the Coliseum was a hoot and the destruction of the library at Alexandria set humanity back a few thousand years.

We're animals.

Final answer.

Answer 3

I agree it isnt fair. But the fact is they generate dollars from the population that Dr. and other professionals dont. Fans spend billions on all forms of entertainment and that money is distributed to a relatively small group of people. A hospital has to pay liability insurance, purchase updated equipment, eat the cost of treating the uninsured, pay nurses and other staff and maintain their building. Sports teams pay the players, management, trainers, equipment and travel and other expenses for 200-300 total employees (hospitals have bigger staffs than that per shift). Another thing to remember, there are a limited number of athletes per sport when compared to jobs such as surgeons, lawyers, etc.(there are more Drs. in a major city than MLB players total. Working class people (like me) make a small amount of profit for their employer, athletes make billions for lots of ultra rich entities and get their peice of the pie. Until you and me( i.e. the working class) quit spending big dollars on sports consumption then the salaries will continue to climb. They can only split up what we are willing to give them.
Heck I think teachers,cops, firemen, and other service skilled should make way more than they do. But while most people dont mind dropping $100.00, $200.00, $300.00 or more to see one 3 hour sporting event ask those very same people to raise their property taxes that much a year to better pay for services and they go crazy. How can they possibly pay for local service when there are entertainment needs to be filled. I voted no on my last local tax request but I too attend an occasional sporting event...it is the way society is.

Answer 4

I'll answer this from several angles.
1. You can't play anything as well as these athletes.
2. Sports were invented to take peoples minds off real life, people pay a lot of money to do this, therefore, causing a void of lots of money.
3. Because they can.
4.Many athletes know as much in their given sport, as a professor in his given field. And, sports aren't schooled they are played.
5. It keeps the economy going.
6. Lifes not fair, if you want to complain, become an emo or anarchist. lol

Answer 5

No it isn't fair, but life isn't fair. If you have ever watched sports, bought a jersey, gone to a game, etc., you contributed to this.

Unless you're in your early 80s, this is the way it has always been. You could have taken up golf and we'd be talking about you now.

I haven't shed any tears for doctors because they don't make enough money. Boo hoo for them.

Answer 6

i get paid £10 a month

Answer 7

That's entertainment!