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Patrick Kane Signs with Detroit Red Wings for 1 year $2.75 million (www.tsn.ca)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Good to see Detroit becoming a free agent destination again!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't disagree, but..

they contribute far more to society and make far less than many.
It's a lot harder than "play a sport a few times a week".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Also shorter careers than most fields, and high injury risk of shortening it even further. My concern is the folks fighting to get into, and stay in the league, making very little comparatively. But they still have the same risks to not be able to function properly due to injury, but don't have the security of big earnings during a decently long career.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I know that professional sports is a lot of training and a lot of hard work, but why is it a several-million-dollar a year job. I mean, it's no wonder so many high school kids want to go into professional sports, thinking they'll be paid millions to just do something they'd be doing anyway on their time off.

And I'm not sure in what way they contribute to society other than playing a game for entertainment. There's value in that, yes, but mostly for the networks and these athletes would probably play no matter what salary they got - if not, then obviously they aren't really athletes but just paid actors.