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Originally Posted by jebartle
Why do we pay our Sports HEROES????? outrageous salaries while the surgeon that saves a small child from certain death earns much less ....Why do cities balance budgets by building elaborate Sports Arenas and lay off teachers at the same time...Our values are all screwed up!....Do you have some questions or answers?
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If a surgeon could get 70,000 people to pay $150 each to watch and have companies pay millions to advertise while he operates, he would make the same money as a professional quarterback.
It's not a question of importance it's a question of how much revenue a person can produce. A baseball player may make $12 million a year but if a surgeon tried to make that kind of money, he'd go out of business and people would simply die.
The $12 million a year comes from a small amount of money from millions of people watching every game.
When a city builds an elaborate sports complex it's because they expect there to be a financial return. That return should actually help them to keep teachers on the payroll.