Made in Dagenham
Of course, I agree that for performing the same tasks, men and women should receive the same amount of money. But it got me thinking about pay discrepancies between professions. Top professional footballers for example can earn a full time teacher’s entire year’s salary in a single week. Yes, there is a high demand to be the best in the world at kicking a ball… but then it’s only kicking a ball. Athletes may work physically hard, but they arguably haven’t put in the more gruelling hours that a surgeon has spent practising, or a fire fighter has training.
Perhaps the world would be a better place if people were paid based on how much their job served to help the rest of humanity. I know, I know, it could never work. Besides all the arguing about what counts as a ‘helpful’ career, there would end up being a million wannabe doctors and teachers for every one author or waiter, and the world would become a miserable, colourless, robotic place. But it does get to me that the richest people in society are those at the head of giant corporations, or stars in the public eye. Infuriating, no?
50 First Dates
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Phone Booth
In the film Phone Booth, an arrogant man is contemplating cheating on his wife. He goes into a phone booth to call his mistress but instead receives a call from a man who is armed with a sniper rifle and watching him. He orders him to tell the truth to both women involved, and warns him that he’ll kill him if he attempts to leave.
