[thecavemaster]

Well said. I would also add that the organizations that employ professional athletes typically have hundreds or thousands of "average Joes" employed and it is not unusual for the athletes to make a 1,000 times more than the lowest paid Joe in those organizations.

I suspect the difference is that the socialists have not invested the time, money, and political capital demonizing professional athletes the way that they have CEOs.

Anyone care to address the base concept that the CEO to employee salary ratio differential in the last thirty years suggests the larger prinicple that the system is structured to redistribute money upward?