It’s still just a game, and they still really only “work” about half the year (in the old days they didn’t make enough and had to do blue-collar jobs part of the year). Then they only can do it for maybe 20 years.
Same way I view just about all athletes.
Must be nice to play around.
In a free market economy, they are paid whatever the market assesses is their value. Being that these ball players, who have a limited career span, earn billions of dollars for their team owners, networks, and other ventures, and the fact that their mere existence as premier athletes produce tons of revenue indirectly via jobs for regular Joe types, I’d say they earn their money, and don’t begrudge them a penny.