Today's professional athletes make astronomical salaries and their only going one direction. Up. Every year we hear we hear about how a professional athlete just signed a contract worth a record (insert ridiculous amount here) million dollars. Then about the same time the very next year we hear about how another athlete is signing a new contract worth even more than the previous high. In fact, most professional sports minimum salaries are over $100,000 per year. …showed first 75 words of 1731 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1731 total…much money in a society that’s salaries and wages are traditionally based on the value of ones work. But that’s just it. These athletes aren't working. They don't have jobs. No one is worth 15, 20, or 30 million dollars a year, much less an athlete. They get paid to play a game, and the salary that they make is not reflective of their contributions to society like the majority of the rest of the people.