It takes Cristiano Ronaldo around 3 minutes to earn the weekly salary of a Saudi worker on the average annual salary of £58,000, 90 seconds to earn the weekly salary of a British worker on the average annual salary of £26,000. Ronaldo earns £3.6 million per week.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51