Successful sports professionals can earn a great deal more than other people in important professions. Some people think this is fully justified while others think it is unfair. Discuss both these views and give your opinion.

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Nowadays
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stars can earn millions of dollars. Some
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think
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is fair, but in my
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successful
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professionals are grossly overpaid.
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who support high athlete wages would argue that
sports
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stars only have a limited time to earn money. Top athletes have to spend many years training and pushing their bodies hard to perform well at an elite level.
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, they are constantly at risk of injury, which can end their career very quickly.
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, usually after 5-10 years, they start finding it difficult to compete with newer, younger players.
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, many top athletes are forced to retire before age 40, so they need to earn a lot of money to
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a long retirement.
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all very well, but the salaries paid to top
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stars are excessive and unfair.
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, football star Cristiano Ronaldo is paid over $30 million a season to play for Manchester United.
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a figure is beyond the retirement dreams of any normal person and cannot be justified when the world is going through an economic crisis.
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, Ronaldo earns 350-400 times the salaries of
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in crucial jobs
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as teachers, nurses and police officers. These jobs are necessary to support fundamental aspects of society
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as education, our health systems and law and order. Without
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society would collapse and
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would die. The same cannot be said about a football player, no matter how well he can kick a ball. In short, elite athletes should be
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, but their salaries should not be excessive. Paying them more modest amounts would be more respectful to the rest of
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