Assignment 6-Gibbs

1) Should professional sports players get paid as much as they do?

2) If you could live for one day as any fictional character, who would you be?

3) If you could choose any career in the world and be highly successful, which career would you choose and why? 

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Amount Lionel Messi gets paid per year for dedicating his life to soccer-41 million dollars.

Amount the average college professor earns per year for dedicating his/her life to educating our future leaders- 81,491 dollars. 

When you look at these numbers as compared to the amount of work they require and the results they produce can you really believe this is fair? While Messi is no doubt putting in a ridiculous amount of time, the discrepancy is still enormous. Also, you have to consider how important these jobs are. Messi is playing soccer-which, while it may be strenuous, does not truly benefit other people besides entertaining them. A professor is educating the furture leaders, doctors, lawyers, etc. of our world. Does this speak to people's priorities today? How does one man who literally plays for a living make about 503 times the amount of a man or women who is teaching? Globally we are placing more importance on entertainment than education, which honestly does not bode well for our collective future. Though I am a soccer fan, I do not believe that pro-soccer players, or any athlete, should be paid so much more that a person who has gone through college and graduate school and is doing something that is for the betterment of our society, such as teaching or healing.