Why Are Professional Athletes Overpaid

Are professional athletes overpaid? Do they warrant the astronomically high salaries they make each year? The simple answer is no. No one person playing a sport that is meant for entertainment should make more than a whole family working at jobs that contribute to people's health, or make a city safer. Do athletes deserve high salaries? Maybe so, but as of right now there is so much separation between the pay of an athlete and the pay of the average american that athletes are quite frankly not worth the millions of dollars they make each year.
Being an athlete requires a specific skill set. They have ability that most others don’t have. However, this ability is one that is based off entertainment. Being an athlete falls under the category of being an entertainer as that is essentially their job, to appease a stadium full of fans each week. Now, would you say that entertaining people
The actual minimum wage is 7.25 dollars, only 507,492.75 dollars more and you have the league minimum for a major league baseball player. A surgeon makes an average salary of 512,000 thousand dollars. This seems kind of crazy right, someone throwing a ball in a hoop to entertain makes at minimum the average of a doctor working hard to save people’s lives daily. The average pay of a construction worker is at around the 35,000 dollar mark. Again, crazy how an entertainer makes hundreds of thousands more at minimum than an average construction worker contributing to society. How much an athlete is paid seems outrageous when compared to other jobs in America, right? How is it fair that there is so much of a difference. Doesn’t it seem beneficial to lower athlete salaries and raise the salaries of everyday jobs to balance the difference and maybe help out people who may need the money. I cannot fathom that Floyd Mayweather has been using every cent of his guaranteed 72 million dollar