While professional athletes are definitely over paid (as are certain people in most other industries), I really have no issues with people who are performing at the highest level of their trade earning higher wages. A Michelin Star chef earns more than a line cook at Village Inn, and that is as it should be. Same goes for professional athletes.

People who are performing at that level should earn more, but not 300 times more as we see happening in the United States today. It's completely assinine when one person makes so much money that they can buy a house with 12 rooms in it that they don't even go in to while another has to decide between paying for food or rent on a two bedroom apartment each month.

Anybody who is willing to work hard and play by the rules should earn enough money to pay the bills, put food on the table, live in a modest home, drive a modest vehicle and take a nice two week vacation every year. All without having to worry about money.

If you check out the income disparity between semi-professional and professional athletes, you'll find the same bloated gap between those at the top of the industry and those at the base level as you do everywhere else.

A society where youth of color see the only legal way out of poverty is become one of those players or a rapper.

Teen boys are not talking about becoming engineers or even electricians but pinning their hopes on being rich and famous via sports or rap music

Sports are fun to play but boring to watch, unless you have friends or family in the game at least IMHO. Paying grown adults millions of dollars to play children's games is just effing insane!

Not just in the USA...all capitalist societies are the same. We have exacty the same problem in the UK and European countries.

yeah, that bugs the sh!t outta me too. I was especially incensed when OU's coach got a hefty raise and they paid the new DC a ton of money while the University is in economic peril on the academic side. To ME I'd rather have a strong university academically vice in sports.

Thats the reason I don't watch professional sports. I think it is immoral, disgusting and...whats the word?... offensive (?) that a police person, a teacher, or a nurse makes 40K while an idiot with a baseball in his hands makes mega millions. I just don't want to support that insanity.