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Economy
INEQUALITY: This Woman Makes Just $13 A Day Selling Pet Rocks On Etsy While MALE Robert Downey Jr. Made Millions Playing Iron Man
2019-01-14
Satire Warning
[Babylon Bee] t’s 2018, and inequality is still a HUGE problem, even in a progressive utopia like Hollywood.

Case in point: this woman’s name is Xayley Briers. She spends forty-five minutes a day running her Etsy storefront selling pet rocks. Do you know how much she makes? About $13 a day.

Pretty sad, right?

Well, it gets worse. While Briers works her butt off selling and shipping pet rocks all over the country for almost an hour each day, Hollywood A-lister and cisgendered white male Robert Downey Jr. has made hundreds of millions of dollars for playing Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

And what did he do? Simply help the franchise make billions worldwide. Both people are working hard, and one is making a LOT more money than the other. Why do you think that is? Oh, that’s right. It’s because she’s a WOMAN and he’s a MAN and our country apparently still doesn’t recognize women as human beings.

Can you say "injustice?" DISGUSTING.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  "Mighty Genie! We wish we were all paid the same as the lead actress!"

*poof*
"It is done."

"Mighty Genie....why is Alyssa Malano where Scarlette Johanson used to be?"

"Alyssa Malano will work for minimum wage, as you all do now!"

"But now nobody will see the movie! We'll never work again!"

"Bwahahahaha! Now you are most equal! Bwahahaha!!"
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-01-14 19:04  

#8  The same people bemoan the injustice of the "Big Business CEO's wage disparity with their employees" seem oblivious to the difference between an A-List Star's wages and that of the extras/film crew. Hypocrisy, much?
Posted by: magpie   2019-01-14 18:38  

#7  Yeah, well, like, Nobel Gases are inert supremacists man!



Slightly off topic, is it me or does the Captain Marvel story crib Green Lantern?

And if there isn't a scene in the next Avengers with America and Marvel doing a 'Captain, Captain, Captain' scene with someone in the background doing a Captain Morgan pose, I will know there is no more joy in Mudville.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-01-14 18:07  

#6  Oh you Guys! Proving that witty repartee is alive and well here at Rantburg. Although witty repartee is something of a redundancy I'll admit.
Posted by: Warthog   2019-01-14 15:47  

#5  Men can have periodic tables too now you phobe.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-01-14 13:14  

#4  Given that Robert Downey Jr is carbon-based while Ms Briers' rocks are mainly silicon, what we have here is yet another egregious example of systemic chemical sexism. Abolish the Periodic Table now!
Posted by: SteveS   2019-01-14 10:40  

#3  That's stupid. How are her buyers supposed to know she's a woman? She should just charge more for her rocks like any guy would do.
Posted by: gorb   2019-01-14 09:56  

#2  They do have something else in common - they are both 5' 4"
Posted by: Spomons Panda9442   2019-01-14 09:55  

#1  Well he played Tony Stark better than she did.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-01-14 09:52  

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