Athletes aren't paid millions of dollars to score points. Athletes are paid to sell tickets. A stadium has x-number of seats, if he sells them (makes people feel tickets are worth the price) he is worth it and if he doesn't then he cut. Of course you could argue that they love what they do, so I will move on to lawyers.
Nobody loves pouring over law books and legal cases. You are forgetting the lawyers who handle adoption, prosecution, defense of the innocent, defense from a corrupt government, judges, counselors of law, arbitrators, etc. Everyone deserves a defense. Everyone deserves a fair legal system that follows rules.
There's a difference between paying for more because they are in a society to earn more, but what you're saying is ridiculous and jealous. You just hate people who have more than you.
I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.
