RE: Should Women Athletes be Paid as Much as Their Male Counterparts?
Agreed. I bet male swimsuit models don't make as much as females, and people don't wonder why.
Any time you get into the territory of what people "should" be making, you've lost your way. You and an employer should offer each other whatever deal you want and only accept it if you like it. There is no "should" besides that; nobody has any right to just decide for others what fair value is.
If this arrangement doesn't always work so well it's probably because there are more fundamental issues and injustices in the economy that make it generally tough out there.
I think you're right to take gender out of it. Often times in the name of "equality" people want to try to force specific outcomes. But when they do this, they're making it a gender issue when it wasn't in the first place.
"You and an employer should offer each other whatever deal you want and only accept it if you like it....If this arrangement doesn't always work so well it's probably because there are more fundamental issues and injustices in the economy that make it generally tough out there." which I think is an excellent argument in favor of #basicincome. Enforce that and it will be interesting to see which occupations are populated with which genders, although I doubt people will be as interested in such things in such a scenario.
I do love me some basic income! Is there a thread for that?
I edited my post with the #basicincome tag. You can check that for some interesting posts.