Athlete salaries unfair

I want to know if someone can tell me why the average salary of a Major League Baseball outfielder is $3.5 million? Or why the median salary of a National Basketball Association player is a couple of million dollars? And why the best of the best can get around $20 million? Well, if you could tell me why they do and why they deserve it, I would be amazed. A garbage person in a large city gets around $30,000 a year, but they do more work than a professional athlete and their work is harder and needed – therefore athletes should be paid WAY less. They should be paid less than a garbage person. Another example is that people like doctors, who can study a decade of their life to become what they are, get paid around $150,000-$300,000 depending on their experience level, but athletes who don’t go to school to become what they are get WAY more, but they should get paid less. Athletes do not contribute to America in the sense of helping people like garbage men and doctors do, so they shouldn’t get the money they do.

Ben Pugh

Spokane