Today my wife and I got to watch the greatest women's soccer team in history win its second world championship at a tournament in France sponsored by FIFA.
FIFA is the organization that runs worldwide soccer. It currently holds a reserve fund of more than 2 billion dollars. The generous leaders of FIFA spare no expense when it comes to their own food, lodging, sex workers and decisions to award venues to nations prone to buying soccer votes, according to critics.
There are people who claim that FIFA is a criminal scheme, while others argue that it is no more crooked that Trump's key Presidential advisers. Who knows, really.
At the moment FIFA ranks the American women's team first in the world and the men's team about 30th. The American women's team pulls in more money that the men's team. It's more popular than the men's team, but FIFA's prize money for the men is ten times the prize money for the women. And there is a good reason to underpay women. They are female.
There are those, allegedly, who argue that FIFA should not underpay women by 90%. You may be one of those western liberals who believe women should earn about 75% of what a man gets for the same job. According to FIFA, you live in a bubble.
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