![]() But does the gender question really explain why men earn more money than women, or are there other factors to consider? When comedian Bill Burr brought up the issue of why female soccer and basketball players earn significantly less money than their male counterparts, he drove this point home. The obvious argument here is that women earn, on average, less money that men simply because they are women. Let’s take the question of salary differences according to gender. ![]() To be specific, we must question the idea of how certain groups are being legitimately ‘held back’, other explanations for their situations amd also question how many of them are at least partially to blame for their own condition. ![]() Don’t get me wrong, I am not completely backpeddling on my position, it’s just that I know that everytime you believe in something, you must be willing to test your conclusions even if the results show that what you believe is completely wrong. I’ve discussed this much on thos blog in terms of the position of black Brazilians in Brazilian society. Let me just say, for years, I have supported the idea that certain groups of people are victims of an enormous conspiracy whose goal is to keep them in ‘their place’. But today, I will discuss a type of conspiracy theory that we’ve long heard about for years. Don’t bother asking me what conspiracies I’m talking about because this is not the platform for such discussions. My thing is, NO, I don’t believe in every conspiracy theory that’s out there but, then again, when you do enough research on a certain topic and can back up your claims with facts, at some point, the topic leaves from the realm of conspiracy theory and becomes, simply conspiracy. I always love it when people looked at me in shock, don’t want to hear what I’m saying, can’t debate the topic or, my favorite, label me a conspiracy theorist. The latter has been me more times than I can remember for at least the last 15 years of my life. ![]() I like comedians who have the nerve to say things outloud that many of us were simply thinking but didn’t say outloud or perhaps did say and got mad pushback from others who couldn’t believe you said it. You gotta love comedians, especially those who know how to break down a current debate or analyze a social issue that many people are thinking out. Note from BBT: The origins of today’s post started with a video that I watched on YouTube, I guess a couple months ago now. ![]()
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