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RE: MemeLogic - Wamens Sports
I understand how markets work. I'm not proposing equality of outcome as I said, but equality of opportunity. For me in this case that means the women should be able to train full-time like the men and not have a second job to pay for the bills. And no, that doesn't mean equal pay, for women that would be a normal salary as if they were working a full-time job in any office. The equality of opportunity here is that they can train as much as the men can. And then the market will decide how these well-trained women will be rewarded on top of their base salary.
I completely agree with you about a living wage, if enough money is generated to afford a full time job salary. But if women's soccer generates 2.5% of what them men's WC generated you can't exactly pay them the same right? And then give the "equal pay" to that of the men is by definition equality of outcome.
Nope, you can't pay them the same - at least not now. They might be able to paid the same in a Utopian future where women generate the same revenue from commercials and merchandise as men. But until then soccer clubs can pay them a living wage. As any company does: you pay a person with the belief they will generate more revenue than you pay in wages. If at the end of the year/a few years they don't, they get fired.