Then you must like the gamble many young people make: becoming a professional athlete. First you must spend years, to the exclusion of much else, to even have

Then you must like the gamble many young people make: becoming a professional athlete. First you must spend years, to the exclusion of much else, to even have a chance to become one. And even if you succeed you're very likely to be just an average athlete. Most won't earn enough money in their ~20 year career to live on for the rest of their life, so you still need to make a big career shift late in your life. And you're always at the mercy of facing a career-ending injury, similar to how Google can wreck your channel for whatever reason.