Professional Athletes and Rags to Riches

[Brandon]

I find it very strange that a country so enamored with the old Horatio Alger myth of "rags-to-riches through hard work" can be so unanimously opposed to the idea of athletes striking it big.

If you stop and think about it, professional athletes, even moreso than our precious CEOs, have truly made it into wealth through their own talents and efforts. But we scorn them. We call them greedy. Meanwhile, we cut tremendous amounts of slack to the corporate robber-barons who delude, suck money out of, and generally ass rape the majority of the country.