Chapotony Chatano here, internet's busiest hogposter, and it's time for another edition of "Let's Argue", where we're on the internet, we accept your hot takes, unpopular opinions, and tough questions, and we struggle sesh over all of them. Leeeeet's, GO!
Take into account that many ruin their bodies with it and acquire no skills for any other employment. Millions of dollar are a lot of money, but if you get irreversible braindamage, worn down joints and no other skills except running fast/being good at sport X it's not absurd. It kinda has to last the rest of your life. This of course doesn't apply to LeBron James or Lionel Messi, but to the hundreds of not-as-famous players. Pro football is especially egregious due to the violent, body contact heavy nature.
Yes, but at a certain point, you don't HAVE to sell your labor to survive. If Bill Gates gets a job at Walmart for fun, he's not suddenly "working class". Most Fortune 500 executives still work, but they have enough money that they will never starve if they just decided to stop.