You are a complete idiot that picks on a few isolated cases to attempt to make a point AND ignore the FACT that these professions work 60/70 hour weeks for many years to get where they are which requires discipline and yes dopey, it requires a certain amount of humility too.
Oh, and you are wrong on what a top lawyer earns. Very wrong. You only get 8 figure salaries in the legal game on the other side of the pond. Bankers? I only know one and he is not a close friend but a friend of a friend. Its the boardrooms of these top banks that created austerity Mr uneducated, not those actual bankers on the shop floor. Yes they make good money but again the vast vast majority don't earn a fraction of what todays average (in many cases VERY average) Prem players get.
I guess you are Andros Townsend in disguise? Trying to justify your greed again yes?
Next you'll be trotting out the line about how much Prem footballers contribute in tax. Is that before or after we take into account the tax avoidance schemes many of them use?

You are incredibly naive or just plain ignorant if you believe the 2008 financial crisis was purely the result of what happened in boardrooms. It was the result of collective, catastrophic failure and greed across the entire banking industry. Never before or since had a single industry inflicted so much damage upon the global economy.

As far as lawyers are concerned, the best paid are corporate lawyers who are paid fortunes to protect the financial interests of their clients, interests which often run contrary to those of the general public.

Football club academies are brutally competitive. For every one player that makes it to pro status, let alone premier league status, hundreds of wannabes fail. As I said before, I'm not seeking to justify all premier league wages. I just think some of the vitriol being pointed in their direction, ironically often from football fans, is unjustified.

There was a culture of greed across the entire industry.

The Big Short references just one part of the crisis. It was a lot broader than that.

I don't think anyone can reasonably argue against the fact that Premier players get paid disproportionately too much and are living in a bubble. There was going to come a time, when it had to stop, nobody thought it would be a pandemic that did it. If you consider what they get paid in relation to the medical profession, who we will all rely on at some point, it just isn't sensical.
Clubs have been spending way beyond their means for years, now its all going to come tumbling down. An average player is earning £3m a year.

Fixing the Libor rate, short selling, sub-prime mortgages, tax evasion... banking was the wild west, but it was making all involved, including the people who make the rules lots of money.

Footballers, musicians, and actors can make rediculous abounts of money by being very good at what they do. Footballers are being made a scapegoat to some extent. Its distracting people from the amount the TV companies and owners are making.

Bankers and businessmen make lots of money by being smart and mainly screwing everyone out of every penny they can get.

Billionaire trader Daniel Levy took the first oportunity to get the tax payer to pay his low earning staff. When he got critised he diverted the attention onto the players.

Even the Spurs yearly wage bill of £80million doesnt seem much against his £1bn net worth. Even the players must be questioning why they should take a pay cut from someone with that much money?