“In your world, Barry Bonds making millions per year for playing a game is just fine,..”
As long as taxpayers money is not used to subsidize it, in the form of taxpayer funded stadiums etc...
And nobody has ever died from lack of watching sports, or been bankrupted because they can’t watch sports.
OK, just to be clear: you think it's OK to make millions of dollars in business, as long as you don't save any lives in the process?