Quoted from zr11990:I could go into a tirade about some athlete who is often enough nothing more than a thug getting paid millions of dollars to play a game when teachers, who are trying to prepare future generations for the life ahead of them get paid 50-60 thousand a year to put up with more abuse than you can imagine. Last week a 2nd grader punched my daughter and told her the shut the fuck up and nothing happened to him. Or the fact that cops and firemen get paid nothing. Or I could say that because of the huge salaries of athletes it costs $100 for a seat in the nosebleeds for a football game. But, that's my opinion.
Capitalism 101 -- if you have specialized skills in a field that generates a lot of $$, you're much more likely to get paid. That's why NFL stars and the boys at Goldman Sachs are taking it home. And teachers and police officers -- who create enormous value for our society over time but don't directly/immediately generate stacks of cash -- are relatively poorly compensated. It's not fair, but that's how the US economy is structured.