Are the high salaries and rewards that top players earn justified?

It is not at all easy. The process must involve the potential employer, who claims that he cannot find the person working capable or trained to do that type of work. Remember all citizens of EU countries can move from country to country and change jobs as many times as they want.

Also unemployment is still in the 10% range.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.