While I compliment the research that went into your article (``Is the system fair?'' Aug. 27), you have neglected that many people in diverse professions are not paid in proportion to their worth or revenue generation early in their careers. For example, doctors, lawyers and accountants often spend years making little in return for long hours and hard work until they meet their licensing requirements -- and many of them graduate college with massive debt. To suggest that it is somehow unfair that Mr. Lynch and his contemporaries put in a few years of work for no monetary compensation when they have a nearly guaranteed multi-million-dollar salary waiting for them is absurd. Unless, of course, you think pro athletes and entertainers are more essential contributors to the social good than the other professionals mentioned above.