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Some people think that Famous athletes and entertainers deserve the large amounts of money they are paid. However, I disagree with this opinion since their degree of contribution to society is not high enough and their struggle in order to be an athlete or an entertainer is not exceptionally high to the other jobs. To begin with, sports player’s and entertainer’s contribution to society is low compared to the other occupations which receive almost same amount of money. This means their payments are not reasonable considering their social value. For example, A poll conducted by Korea Consensus related to job fields shows that people thinks society contribution level of entertainments and sport department is lower than other job departments. The researcher chose 5 job fields – sports, entertainments, business, education, medical- and contacted 500 people who were asked to choose the most contributing job and the lowest contributing one. As a result, over 70% of the people responded that contribution level of sports and entertainments fields are the lowest. This is because the other 3 fields of jobs can give direct contribution but, sports and entertainments field only give emotional joy. On top of that, athletes and entertainer’s effort for developing their talents are not in that much different to the other career. People who want to have other occupations struggle like or more than athletes and entertainers. Let’s take an example of my friends, I have two friends and each of them hope to be a singer and be a psychologist. My friend who wanted to be a psychologist studied 16 hours a day for Korean SAT in high school days. After graduation. He could major in psychology at the Seoul national university. and he should struggle to take bachelor’s degree. Plus after graduation of the university he should study more than 6 years to get a doctor’s degree. In short, After graduation from high school, He studied almost 10 years to become a psychologist. However, my friend who want to be a singer spent only 6 years being a famous singer after high school graduation. As shown in the case of my friends, entertainer’s effort are not larger than other careers. In a nutshell, taking the degree of society contribution and needed efforts to gain the job, large payments for entertainers and sports players are not fair. In this regard, I hold athletes and entertainers has no qualification for a lot of money. |