Weight In Gold

Much thanks to Pete Everson for this nugget:

Gold is priced £32,845.67 per kg.

The average professional footballer weighs 73.5kg.

So that means that any footballer earning £2,414,156.75 a year, or £46,426.09 a week is being paid their weight in gold.

Some of professional footballers get paid multiples of their weight in gold!

Meanwhile the average annual salary in the UK is £26,500, less than one kilogram of gold.

Does this strike you as fair?

If you are concerned about fairness then you run this risk of being considered irrational by economists...