Are Actors and Proffesional athletes overpaid
ARE ACTORS AND PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES OVERPAID? I am a huge fan of the entertainment industry. I believe it takes a lot of skill and tact to do what they do and I also strongly know that professional actors and athletes are not overpaid. My reasons are: Firstly, there are certain roles actors and actresses play in movies depending on the genre of such movies. For instance, if an actor or an actress is having a play a sexual role, he or she will have to be paid a large sum of money because in most cases such people put their marital relationship on the line or may be unfairly criticized by viewers of such movies forgetting that such a movie was only acted to pass a message across to these viewers. In the case of professional athletes, when they partake in such sports, they tend to sustain injuries of which they need enough money so as to facilitate the treatment of such injuries or in severe cases will have to undergo surgeries for which afterwards keeps them out on the sidelines for a considerable long amount of time during which they do not receive any payment of any kind until they are back competing. Thirdly, when these so called “celebrities” are invited to speak to the press, they are often asked different kind of questions by various journalists which tends to put them in various kind of trouble as in most cases their words are usually twisted. In addition to this, as in the case of professional athletes, when they are called upon to represent their respective countries in competitions like the Olympics there is a large burden of expectations placed on them and as such they will need to be compensated with quite a large sum of money as this will spur them on to deliver. Furthermore, professional actors and actresses are mostly paid according to the market sales the producing team receives from the production of these movies. Meaning that if the market sales are not on the large scale