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human
I believe that salaries in sports are insanely too high and pros don't deserve this amount of money. CMV.

In my eyes, pro players of any sports don't deserve to be paid in the millions for practicing their sport. Yes, they are the best at it in the country/world, but even 500k/year during 10 years in plenty of money to go on with your life after being a pro.

I don't get why the governement don't tax the shit (talking about 80-85% for huge contracts) out of the money they don't need. After all they are just there for entertaining the public. Without us, they would be nothing.

As you can tell, I’m sitting on the very left wing in terms of politicals views.
For context, I live in Canada so hockey is more relevant here.

CMV. I'll read every comment.
gpt
Alright, so lets say you work for a company that manufactures hammers. Each hammer sells for a fixed price, and you're paid more for each hammer you're able to assemble.

The people Who are able to assemble more hammers make more money. Why? Because each hammer represents a certain amount of money, and after the cost of materials and everything else, a part of the profit is given to the worker. Of course, this depends on how hammer sales are doing. If nobody was buying any hammers then it wouldn't matter how many you're able to assemble.

Pro-sports are basically the same thing. Athletes provide a service to a team, that team makes oodles of money as a result of the service athletes provide. A cut of the profit made by these teams is given to the athletes both as an incentive to play well and because its just fair to pay a worker something for the services they provide.

Think about it like this, if we paid athletes less than we do now - the only change would be in the bottom lines for the teams. It isn't like that money would magically be used to fund education.

In short, athletes are paid so much because the market has a demand for their unique services.