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Subject: Do you think professional athletes are overpaid?

I have seen time and time again that people on this forum believe that pro athletes "make too much money" and that we should "give it to people who really deserve it".

Why should teachers or military soldiers make more than professional athletes?

The amount you get payed is dictated by how much skill your job takes (how many others can do it as well as you), and how much revenue you bring in for your employer.

So technically I believe that athletes are UNDERPAID. Have you seen how much revenue NFL players bring in? The NFL makes billions each year.

Agree? Disagree? Indifferent?

  • 01.01.2013 11:57 AM PDT

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Yes they are overpaid.

  • 01.01.2013 11:58 AM PDT
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Obviously.

  • 01.01.2013 11:58 AM PDT

Considering they play a game for a living yes they are.

  • 01.01.2013 11:58 AM PDT

Military soldiers are murderers, so they shouldn't make any money.

But teachers, yes. They should make way more than athletes.

  • 01.01.2013 11:59 AM PDT


Posted by: RockdaleRooster
Considering they play a game for a living yes they are.


Why does it matter what you do for a living? Isnt your pay determined by how much revenue you bring in?

  • 01.01.2013 11:59 AM PDT
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Defiantly

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"Ignorance is a plague."

Close, but the plague killed those infected with it, and the ignorant are still alive.
I wish ignorance was a plague.

They have a marketable skill that brings lots of profit to their employers, so no they aren't overpaid.

  • 01.01.2013 12:00 PM PDT

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Nope. Supply and demand.

  • 01.01.2013 12:00 PM PDT


Posted by: LiberatorOfMind

But teachers, yes. They should make way more than athletes.


Why?

most people could even teach themselves through computers and the internet nowadays.

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I think money is overrated.

  • 01.01.2013 12:00 PM PDT

I am the Carpet man they talk about... I jump from star to star, I walk it out.

Posted by: lightlamp2
Defiantly
How do you defiantly overpay someone?

  • 01.01.2013 12:00 PM PDT

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  • 01.01.2013 12:01 PM PDT

Posted by: DatDudeBV

Posted by: LiberatorOfMind

But teachers, yes. They should make way more than athletes.


Why?

most people could even teach themselves through computers and the internet nowadays.

Not as effectively as teachers, and that's not the point, anyway. Teachers sacrifice a large portion of their life to lecture at snot-nosed brats who hate school and don't appreciate what they have.

  • 01.01.2013 12:01 PM PDT

Isn't money the reason why NHL is in a lock down? Cause they're not getting enough or something?

  • 01.01.2013 12:01 PM PDT

I r guy who gun to teach u lesson

Yep, very overpaid.

Not their fault though, its the same with most of the entertainment business.

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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

They are paid the salary that they are able to negotiate and that the owners/franchise is willing to pay. It's the fans who are paying the ticket prices in order to sit in the stands, or the commercial sponsors who pay for advertisement time on the networks who then pay the league in order to televise the sport.

If it weren't for the fans being willing to watch (and accept commercials) or pay for seats, then the teams wouldn't have the money to pay any salaries or ones as high as they are.

IMO, it's a good example of the market setting its own levels.

I don't begrudge someone with a skill, talent or gift who is then able to turn that ability into a moneymaking enterprise. There are only one group of people (IMO) who have any say or right to complain (or do something) if they think that the player salaries are too high. The fans themselves. And all they need to do is not watch, not attend and wait for the results in the paper or on the news that night. If fan participation (ie: money) were to slow down or dry up, salaries would plummet.

  • 01.01.2013 12:01 PM PDT


Posted by: LiberatorOfMind
Military soldiers are murderers, so they shouldn't make any money.

But teachers, yes. They should make way more than athletes.


lol but most murderers have gone to school and you shouldn't pay people that teach murderers

  • 01.01.2013 12:02 PM PDT


Posted by: LiberatorOfMind
Posted by: DatDudeBV

Posted by: LiberatorOfMind

But teachers, yes. They should make way more than athletes.


Why?

most people could even teach themselves through computers and the internet nowadays.

Not as effectively as teachers, and that's not the point, anyway. Teachers sacrifice a large portion of their life to lecture at snot-nosed brats who hate school and don't appreciate what they have.


teachers also have summers off. They work less hours than the average worker.

And brats? I dont understand how all students are "brats"

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Posted by: DeadliestCarpet
Posted by: lightlamp2
Defiantly
How do you defiantly overpay someone?
By giving them way more than they deserve just to play a sport

  • 01.01.2013 12:02 PM PDT
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LeaveItYeah

Lolyes.

No way does a sports star deserve what they are paid. A footballer recently joined PSG for 40mil Euros and will earn 250k a month.

  • 01.01.2013 12:03 PM PDT

Paying people like nurses and doctors the salary of a professional athlete would only make them retire quickly

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Yes.

  • 01.01.2013 12:03 PM PDT


Posted by: NinjaLord77
Isn't money the reason why NHL is in a lock down? Cause they're not getting enough or something?


No its because they are getting TOO much according to the owners.

Players received 57% of the revenue sharing and the owners want to reduce that closer to 50/50.

  • 01.01.2013 12:03 PM PDT


Posted by: DatDudeBV

Posted by: LiberatorOfMind
Posted by: DatDudeBV

Posted by: LiberatorOfMind

But teachers, yes. They should make way more than athletes.


Why?

most people could even teach themselves through computers and the internet nowadays.

Not as effectively as teachers, and that's not the point, anyway. Teachers sacrifice a large portion of their life to lecture at snot-nosed brats who hate school and don't appreciate what they have.


teachers also have summers off. They work less hours than the average worker.

And brats? I dont understand how all students are "brats"
lolnope, do you seriously think teachers get summer off? I bet you also think they stop working after school is over too.

  • 01.01.2013 12:03 PM PDT