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Are professional athletes overpaid?

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No		19%	72 votes	Total: 373 votes
Yes		81%	301 votes	Total: 373 votes

No

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by Andy Aitkens

Imagine that you work hard all day, for almost every day in the year. Constantly training, constantly traveling. After all of these physical and emotional tolls you and your bo...read more
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by Paul Schingle

Asked simply as is, I'd have to say the answer is no, professional athletes are not overpaid. They get paid what the market will bear. If attendance at sporting events were to...read more
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by Aj Brady

Professional athletes are paid exorbitant wages, far out-weighing more "meaningful" occupations as politicians, foreign aid workers, social workers, etc. I do not deny that p...read more
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by Emma Riley Sutton

When regular people know the amount that professional athletes are paid, it probably take their breath away. Most people do not make an athlete's one season salary in a lifetim...read more
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by Steve Wilson

I would like to welcome my congregation today to the simple discussion of the modern day athlete, and their wage. How many times have you heard someone say, with envy dripping ...read more
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by Christopher Hammond

Athletes get paid obscenely large amounts of money; this is true. We have all heard someone complain about how athletes are overpaid for what they do. I would like to make the c...read more
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by Ernst Ducena

So many times I have heard people complaining about how much money professional athletes make, and how much they do not deserve to make such large sums of money, and every time ...read more
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by Shenni Bubb

Professional athletes are NOT overpaid, every cent is well earned. One often forgets just how much these professionals have sacrificed to get where they are. Early morning train...read more
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by Kevin Nye

There are two big reasons that athletes are not overpaid. First of all, if someone is willing to pay them $20 million to play sports, then there's obviously a market in which it...read more
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by Shrikant Barve

Demand Supply of IM's level chess coaches IN INDIA "The AICF shall pay Rs.10,000/- for GM's and RS.7,000/- or Rs 5000/- for others for a ten day coaching programme. For outst...read more
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by Stephen Bate

I, like millions of others, dream of being a sports star. The idea of playing a sport that I love to earn my living really appeals, as does the thought of being guided down the ...read more

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Yes

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by Wayne Reeves

All roads are indeed paved with gold when it comes to destination NFL. Can there be a sport anywhere else in the world where playing so few games in a season enables the partic...read more
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by Richard Saare

I have personally boycotted professional sports for the last twenty years for that exact reason. I will watch the last fifteen minutes of the Super Bowl every year and nothing m...read more
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by Bruce Bostwick

Not all of the professional players make too much money. The prime target is going to be baseball since that one seems to keep going higher and higher on demanding a salary. Y...read more
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by John Gugie

Yes, I do believe that professional athletes are drastically overpaid. We see athletes getting paid millions of dollars just to throw or kick a ball. I mean what importance ar...read more
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by Anna Yarbrough

There is no disputing the fact that professional athletes work hard doing physical and mental training over a period of many years in order to practice and attain the level of ...read more
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by John Graham

Are professional athletes overpaid? There are athletes and athletes. Some people who we call athletes' are members of teams others are individual athletes. There is a hug...read more
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by Nathan Halfpenny

Sports are an extremely important part of many people's lives, this writer's included. Many people plan their days, nights and weekends around the big games, fights, or matches...read more
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by Rajiv Wadhwa

Professional Athletes earn millions of dollars enjoying and playing a sport that they love. Lets take basketball players as an example, Chris Bosh has a contract of 40 milli...read more
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by Reynold Conger

Professional athletes who perform well have usually been paid well, perhaps too well, but in the past the excess was only ten or perhaps twenty times the salary of a middle clas...read more
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by Sean Curtis

Professional athletes work hard. No question about it. They deserve to be paid well for their skills. Some sports seem to pay their athletes at a reasonable level - not way too ...read more
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by Roger Fritz

This debate contains a lot of emotional feelings, but no legitimate basis worth arguing. Without question, professional athletes are handed wealth that no one deserves to be ha...read more
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by L. A. Kell

Professional athletes are grossly overpaid. With their grossly over inflated salaries, it makes it difficult for families to afford tickets to attend. One may argue that caree...read more

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