Comment Re:Some camps are more intense (Score 1) 123
That's because north america puts such a brutally large importance on competitive sports that many kids are sadly taught that if they don't become a professional athlete, they've failed their parents. After all, every parent wants to retire once their kid scores that 4-million-a-year contract. The system is horribly broken.
Personally, I say athletes should have their salaries capped (after bonuses or any other possible way to get the money) at 150k a year. And that's for the highest-end athletes.
Imagine how much better the country would be to have those millions upon millions of dollars spent ELSEWHERE, instead of some baseball or football player? Higher pay could be going to everyone (although the higher-ups at companies wouldn't allow that), it could be funneled into infrastructure, or god forbid put towards research and development!