The general public should be the ones deciding how much is too much, but they don’t. Using A-rod as an example, if the Steinbrenner’s want to pay him $300+M over 6 years, they have every right to do so. But if in doing so they have to charge $300/seat and the public says, “No, that’s too much and I’m not going to pay that”, then it wouldn’t be cost effective for the organization to pay that salary. But instead of people standing up and saying “We will not pay $3,000 for a new TV; we will not pay $180 to see Bruce Springsteen” they pay the money which just reinforces the thought that people are worth so much more than they actually are.