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Up, Up, and Away Today’s professional athletes make astronomical salaries, and they’re only going in one direction. Up. Ever year fans hear about how a professional athlete just signed a contract worth a record “bazillion” dollars. Then, next year, another athlete signs a new contract worth even more than the previous “all-time high.” The typical minimum salary for professional sports is over $100,000 a year. These salaries are not at all reflective of the athlete’s economical importance. Professional athletes make too much money in a society where salaries are based upon the value of one’s work. One of the main reasons that these salaries escalate is society. Fans (the public) dishes out $50 for a ticket, $100 for a jacket, and $20 for a hat of their favorite team. The prices and salaries keep going up, because athletes know that the public will pay for it. If society stopped paying these ridiculous prices, and there were no monies coming in, would the prices and/or salaries increase? No. Teams would not be able to keep paying athletes “out of this world” salaries, because there would be insufficient funds being taken in. Michael Jordan is a prime example; he too falls into this category of