actors and athletes; Overpaid or not?

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The average MLB player makes $1.5 millions per year (Bliss). There are a lot of opinions on whether athletes and actors are overpaid. Many feel they don’t deserve what they make and others feel they are well worth the millions they get. On average the better players of the MLB get between $two million and $twenty million a year (DeBlieux). Are they really worth that much? Many people think actors and athletes deserve their pay that they get because they entertain people and bring more money into the economy; however, there are other jobs that are way underpaid, police and firefighters, who risk their own lives for complete strangers and make very little when compared to an athlete or an actor. There are some athletes who some think are worth the money they make every year. The top three are Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, and Barry Bonds. These three try as hard as they can to make their team win the game. They all have helped their teams win championships and special titles. Michael Jordan is trying to get the Bulls third consecutive NBA title. The second is Wayne Gretzky, who after a very terrible injury, managed to bring his team a win in their sixth semifinal game. According to “Sports of the times; Overrated? Overpaid? Not these three”, Wayne Gretzky “was on 4 Stanley cup championship teams” (Anderson). The last of the three athletes is Barry Bonds, who signed the largest contract in baseball history at the time. The contract was worth 43.75 million over six years. He was signed this with a .394 batting average, a .771 slugging average, and a .509 on-base average. Million for million, each is a bigger bargain than any item in an outlet store (Anderson). Sports needs these three athletes and many more like them to help show no... ... middle of paper ... ...e else wrote. But most importantly, they feel that all that money they get could be put to better use by paying the military more, paying our teachers more, and by paying our public services more. The average MLB player makes 1.5 million (Bliss), now cut that down to 100 thousand. Now put the 1.4 million into schools funding and increase the teachers pay, put it into soldiers pay, and put it into the public services pay. So what does this do? Now suddenly you have more teachers to help the children prepare for their bright future, more people wanting to join the military, more police officers to keep the cities safer, and more firefighters to help stop more fires, whether they’re in the woods or in the town.Athletes still make enough money to live on and then some and the economy will start to recover much faster. It wouldn’t be long until America was really America.

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