That's another point I've come to think about when dealing with the celebrities salaries...    They get payed that because there are people that pay hundreds of dollars to go to a game, concert, etc...    I never got why they do that... really... :confused:    If it were for people like me all these guys woudn't have a cent... :p  I've never gone to a concert, game,  I rarely watch a game on tv...  I've never bought a music cd, or a movie dvd (at least not original :p)    I've been to movies though... not that frequent either....    In part it's a thing of supply and demand... the high prices in concerts, games... are due to limited supply...     One of the things I've thought is that simply the tickets shouldn't be so expensive, so they make less money and get paid less...  A problem with this is that getting tickets would be a matter of who gets there first instead of who pays more...  Or simply some people would get there first and resell...  At least the celebrities wouldn't be making so much... :D    Another idea is to leave it the way it is but get huge taxes applied to the income of such events... high enough for them to get paid on a regular level...    Actually this is the same thing I'd do to foreign-made competitor products:  toys made in China by a Chinese sweat shop that pays their workers with a rice meal would get entry taxes so they don't out-compete local producers...  another thing could be evaluating the quality standards of the products and simply not allow them to enter the country if they don't match the same conditions of the local made ones...  I'm talking here about big commerce importing operations, if an individual decides that he/she want such product and buys it over the internet for personal use (non-commercial) the restrictions probably shouldn't apply...