Football and money

I was reading comments from football fans on Bleacher Report about different players. Quite a few of them were being rude about Christiano Ronaldo (CR7) with lots of RM and Man Utd fans defending him. I dislike him intensely, btw.... in case you are interested. Anyway, one of his fans made this comment:"He doesn't care about your opinion. He earns more in one year than you will in 20"

This started me thinking about what a crazy fucked up world we live in - where a guy can get paid such a huge amount for kicking a ball around a ground. You have teachers and nurses who are paid so little and who contribute so much to society and get paid so little. Something is wrong with our priorities. You can't tell me people like CR7 contribute that much. Some of the players who get rewarded so highly do not have anywhere near CR7's talent. You could argue that football players in lower divisions are rewarded less highly. True. But how low do you wanna go before you get to a football player who is rewarded the same as an "ordinary" person? Actually, thinking about it, the Cup games are a revelation, where you see how small the gap is between the different divisions. Is it really fair that players in those divisions get paid so much less? I believe that talent should be rewarded but the differences are extreme.

It's not just footballers. Top athletes earn so much, it's obscene. So do people in the entertainment business. But again, it's the people at the top who walk away with the biggest slice of the cake. Should the split not be fairer? I have a friend who thinks everybody should be paid the same for doing a day's work. He thinks that just a few people, who are at the very top or industrialists should be paid more. That would be a fairer deal for people.

What do you think?