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Do you think pro Athlete’s are overpaid?

Sylvain Mitchel Scott Rolland
Girard Zapitelli McCormick Bissonnette
SJCSS math Beloved football Local trivia and Combat sports instructor
and culinary arts coach, Vanier sports enthusiast and coach, mentor
teacher, sports and cryptic It depends on your
definition
of
‘over
enthusiast, and Cup winner, and crossword solver paid’. Should athletes
Clint Eastwood fan math teacher be paid higher than our
Professional athletes are not My answer is ‘no’. Why blame educators, first responders, medical staff, or
Do professional athletes deserve their our armed forces? As a proud Canadian citizen,
money? Well, as Clint Eastwood overpaid. Many of them are somebody for taking money for I believe the people who serve and protect and
stated, “Deserves has nothing to do franchise players and economics something they’re talented in? risk their own health and well-being should
with it.” Professional athletes are not allows them to make that kind People are willing to pay them. earn the highest salaries.
paid by merit; they are paid by simple of money. People are willing Life would be boring without As a coach, I see the countless hours of
economics. It’s the basic principle of entertainment, and millions sacrifice athletes go through, the lonely hours
away from friends and family, the never-ending
supply and demand. We demand it, to pay for tickets and to support of people are entertained by camps, the injuries, the weight management,
and the skills required are in short their favourite teams. professional sports. the highs, the lows. How about team sports
supply, so we pay for it. However, the sports world is The money athletes make isn’t versus individual sports? Who should be paid
In a utopian world the money missing a great opportunity being taken away from the poor. more in that case?
I believe all athletes deserve to be paid a fair
professional athletes make would when it comes to women’s It comes from billionaires and salary for the sacrifices they make to their
get distributed to more “deserving” corporations. Sure, it would be craft and to entertain the ticketholders and
causes, but that is not the world we sports. Women are not supported shareholders. As a fan, I believe many athletes
live in. One could pose the following equally, and they do not get nice if some of that money went compete for the love of the sport they chose
question: Would a more “equitable” many of the opportunities their to helping the poor, but you can’t to pursue. A scale should be invoked with a
ceiling or a cap in order to keep questions like
pay drive the quality players away to male counterparts get. It’s hard force anyone. Sports creates its these from coming up.
different career paths and thus lead to to believe this kind of gap exists own wealth. If sports disappeared, Do I feel athletes are overpaid? My answer is
a lesser quality pro sport and in turn it’s not like all that money would ‘it depends’. I don’t feel they deserve a better
lead to a decline in its popularity? in 2019. become available for other things. lifestyle than anyone else, but they do deserve
compensation.

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