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Successful sports professionals can earn a great deal more money than people in other important professions. Some people think this is fully justified while others think it is unfair.

Discuss both views and give your own opinion.


The issue whether successful sportsperson can earn more money than the persons in other important professions has been widely debated in the society. It is an important issue because it concerns fundamental moral and economic questions regarding the attachment of fame and money to some specific professional domains. A variety of different arguments have been put forward about this issue. This essay will consider arguments for linkage of money and power with certain professions and why it is injustice to other professions, which are equally important in social context.

It has been argued that sportspersons are face to the country, when they represent their country in international sports events. These sportspersons, so this argument goes, are the ambassadors of the country they represent in such international events. However, there are people working in equally unique important and unique professions, and these professionals represent the picture of the nation in global community. For example, professionals such as Astronauts, Scientists, Doctors etc are often engaged in assignments which are of much more importance and significance to their countries as well as for whole mankind, yet they do not receive equivalent fame and money as sportsperson do.

It could be further asserted that sportspersons sweat out their lives in early childhood to reach to the pinnacle. This argument assumes that since sportspersons had sacrificed luxuries in their childhood and opted for harder path, they should be rewarded for their success. However, it should not be forgotten that similar hardships and tough choices had been made persons who work in other fields such as social activists or a poet, either of them would have indulged in their respective activities at an early stage of life. But, since some professions such as social welfare are never in limelight, even people who would have devoted their entire life would not receive as much money as sportspersons receive.

Another argument in favour of justifying sportsperson high income is that sports events and correspondingly sportspersons generate huge revenue through ticket sales for sports events. This argument assumes that part of this instant generated capital should go to sports persons. However, engineers and scientists, working in research departments of companies or Universities, also generate revenues to the similar scale by filing patents, which are source of continuous stream of income to these organizations. But, since researchers are bounded by laws and rules of these organizations, the majority of income from these patents goes back to the organizations itself, leaving individuals with paltry share of the overall income, whereas this is not the case with sportspersons.


In conclusion, I believe that high incomes of the sportspersons are not justifiable for the above mentioned arguments generally put forward for their support. Since our society has some misconceptions regarding sportspersons, we are generally assumed to believe that sportsperson are righteous in receiving “their” share of money, which is not true nonetheless.