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Where are schools going to make the money back that they pay to student athletes, other than by raising tuition? Tuition costs now are with the current system of schools not paying athletes, and there is question about how profitable athletic departments are: https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/athletics-departments-make-more-they-spend-still-minority

Don't forget that the reason universities exist is to be centers of higher education. Not to win sports games. So all their decisions should be made with students primarily in mind, not student athletes. Yes, having things like University Police Departments (or even basic things like electricity and heating) increase student tuition, but having them is so important that there is basically a consensus that they are worth the cost. There will not be a consensus that giving student athletes a salary is worth the cost for other students, on top of the other issues it will cause.

If business are becoming more and more profitable, but not increasing wages or decreasing prices, that is an issue to take up with those businesses. When you start talking about how businesses should pass their savings along to employees and consumers, you're no longer talking about the issue at hand. A lot more people are hurt than benefit from schools giving salaries to student athletes. And now that the athletes who are actually generating money can make money from their name (with the biggest money generators naturally making the most money), this shouldn't even be an issue.
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