Tiger Woods is first athlete to hit $1 Billion

It's just the standard for today's society. If you have the ability to reach the masses, you will get paid.

IMO, researchers and scientists should make athlete's wages. Or this kid who built windmills out of trash. Individuals furthering the advancement of society and our species as a whole are grossly underrated.

I completely agree, but that's now how things work. Who do you suggest pay them the athletes wages to the researchers in a hypothetical situation?

Instead of paying the researchers and scientists the wages, why not pay the people who make the actual discoveries? You could research something specfically your entire life and come up with nothing. I'm sure there are thousands that have been through this dilemma, or only ones that have come up with short answers or discoveries. Then what? You've paid millions upon millions of dollars to people that haven't done anything with it? Then there is a new problem.

Perhaps not the exact amount of athlete's wages.

My point was people that are immensely valuable to our species are incredibly underrated. You know what I meant, hoser.

I'd like to clarify, I don't have a problem with Tiger Woods or any other overpaid entertainer. They're not the ones to blame. I just think it's stupid in general.