International entertainers, including sports personalities, often get paid million of dollars in one year. In you view, with widespread poverty in the world, are these huge earnings justified?

The salaries of many singers, dancers and

sportspeople

have increased out of all proportion in recent years, while in places like Sudan people are starving to death. I do not believe that anyone should be able to earn

such

enormous salaries when so many people in the world are living in poverty. One of the factors which should affect what a person can earn ought to be the benefit of a person's

work

to society. It is unreasonable for a famous singer to be able to earn far more from an evening's entertainment than,

for instance

, a medical scientist who develops a new drug which produces a treatment for a common disease. The pop star certainly has value in society, but the value in no way exceeds, or even matches, the value gained from a successful medication.

Secondly

, the

work

done should be paid according to the amount of effort and skill that goes into it. Nobody would deny that a famous person works hard and is

skillful

having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

skilful

, yet

such

people do not

work

any harder than thousands of other workers who have no claim to fame. Yet market force is

such

that these superstars can obtain millions of dollars while other unknown people sometimes earn less than they need to survive.

Finally

, it should be possible for governments to

work

together to ensure that the amount of money in circulation should be more equally and fairly distributed.

This

seems only fair given that there is so much suffering. To conclude, it is clear that world poverty is a serious problem and yet the problem could be erased if governments and companies gave more thought to

paying

Suggestion

pay

salaries on a more equitable basis and if they started to contribute more money to those in need.