With Wimbledon going on, I've been thinking about equal pay and unequal pay in sports. In Wimbledon, for example, the women get paid as much prize money as the men do. It's a different story for the wheelchair players - they get paid significantly less. That's obviously because they bring in significantly less revenue, but the interesting thing is that there's not too much of a fuss made about that. Women bring in noticeably less revenue than men do at Wimbledon but they get equal prize money. The issue here is about inconsistencies.

You can view pay as being something that is tied to revenue brought in/demand for what you do, or you can view it as being something that should be equal for everyone. I just ask for consistency. If you don't care for revenues brought in when you're assessing pay, athletes shouldn't get paid much anyway - the cleaner at the public toilets in Brixton should get paid the same as Cristiano Ronaldo (in terms of doing essential jobs for society, what Ronaldo does [aka playing a game] is not more essential than what he does). If you do factor in the reality that demand and supply determine pay, I don't want to hear about unequal pay in sports. Sports are, by the nature, unfair.