It’s no secret that professional athletes are incredibly overpaid. LeBron James makes about $16 million per year, which is amazing, considering that the average scientist’s yearly salary is $77,000. While James is getting paid millions to throw a ball into a hoop, many teachers — responsible for the education of America’s youth (and, indirectly, the future of the nation) — are struggling just to put food on the table with their average $35,672 per year. Bleacher Report points out that every basket scored by Kobe Bryant is equivalent to the average teacher’s yearly salary. Would America’s police force be better and more highly refined if officer salaries were even close to that of a professional athlete? Would NASA be able to do more research or launch further space missions if America wasn’t so busy over-prioritizing sports and if the priority was funding the professions of scientists and engineers? wallstcheatsheet/stocks/10-reasons-sports-are-americas-no-1-priority.html/?a=viewall
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 07:19:49 +0000
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