Proposal

                                                                                                         Kyle Long
                                                  English Proposal                             

                In 2010 Tiger Woods Made made over $90 millions, LeBron James made over $45 million, and Alex Rodriguez made over $35 millions. You aren’t alone if you question how this can be possible and how fair this is. Professional athletes being overpaid is a major problem that effects nearly everyone. The major argument is that professional athletes get paid way to much to play a game while they are making millions more then people that actually work hard and have real jobs. The concept is that anyone else would play these things for free, while these people are making multimillion dollars to do it. Another reason this became such an issue is people realized that some of these athletes are being paid more the people with jobs that actually benefit the society, like doctors or surgeons, that save lives. This could have been caused by many things, but one specific cause is society and the people who support the athletic events and the teams. A reasonable explanation to why they get paid so much can be simply related to the idea of supply and demand. The demand of gas increasing leads to gas prices increasing. The demand of professional sports leads to ticket prices and athletes salaries increasing. They became so popular because so many people watch them and are entertained by them; I honestly don’t know what the world would be like if professional sports didn’t exist. Personally I enjoy watching sports and agree they are entertaining, but also agree that the athletes are being overpaid. This problem is only going to get worse with time and if it doesn’t get solved it can lead to even more controversy and economical problems.
           Solving this problem would be nearly impossible. The obvious way to solve it would be to lower the athletes salaries, but it’s not that easy. Athletes would not agree to that and most argue that they should be paid more. Another reason it would be hard to solve is because that would mean all the fans would have to stop supporting the sports teams and athletes they love. Some other possible solutions would be to have an actually effective and reasonable salary cap or system that pays players based on performance.
          Professional athletes excessive salary is a problem that needs handled or will get out of control. We need to change. Really it’s really in the hands of society, who partially caused the problem in the first place. There has to be a solution, not everyone may like it, but if it benefits society it should be done.

Thesis: While Professional athletes are paid significantly for their talents, they contribute little to making society better. Money spent on pro athletes could be better spent somewhere else.