"Married Men Make More Money"!

[bstoffParticipant 4863]

They’re trotting out the old story of slaves being more productive for their masters than free men!

Don’t fall for it!
https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/2018/09/19/u-s-married-men-earn-much-more-than-others-demographics-trends#gs.fjrojnM

[RusskyParticipant 13503]

It’s the other way around: Men with money are married
They keep putting the cart before the horse with these articles.
Simple switching of cause and result – they rely on idiots to read these articles and fall for it

proud carrier of the 'why?' chromosome

[bstoffParticipant 4863]

It’s not discussed in this article, but married men are under more pressure to earn more,
either by working harder for promotion or putting in more time at work, under the threat of divorce from their wives.

What happens when a man making a mediocre wage is divorced by his wife?
He loses his assets, the house, the kids, and and half of any future income, while the ex-wife marries another victim
and continues the cycle of slavery for every new fool she encounters.

With any luck, none of her victims are falsely accused of assault, rape, or molesting their own children.

[Anonymous 2]

They are getting desperate. I’ve never had a female contribute to the building of wealth even on a small scale that I’ve been with. They won’t buy you dinner so they damn sure won’t help you.

[bstoffParticipant 4863]

The only think I could call a contribution was when my first wife nagged me to apply for a better job she saw in the paper.
I eventually got the job and have advanced quite a bit with it.

This is the same wife who quit her own job(s) several times on a whim.

Oddly enough, my second wife also quit jobs with little-to-no thought because she already had a workhorse bringing home money for her.
And NONE of the money they “earned” was contributed to the wealth-building or retirement savings.
That was my job, too.
And they will get rewarded with a piece of my efforts when I retire.

It says a lot, doesn’t it?

[Anonymous 38]

Work horse providers earn more money? Bears also s~~~ in the woods.

[SpiderHerderParticipant 3756]

bstoff wrote:

The only think I could call a contribution was when my first wife nagged me to apply for a better job she saw in the paper.

Mind if I one-up you ? lol

The wife of a guy I worked with applied FOR him. He didn’t know what was going on when he got the phone call.

One day (on payday, of course), she showed up to pick him up like a little kid, probably to go do the groceries. And yes, she was ugly and fat.

JUST F~~~IN’ AWFUL.

[MorpheusParticipant 2177]

I suppose they also take into account divorced millionaires. And it is about how much they earn, not how much they can spend from it.

Change the rules as they see fit.

The research comes from a reserve bank and there is not mention of divorce anywhere.

[bstoffParticipant 4863]

SpiderHerder wrote:

One day (on payday, of course), she showed up to pick him up like a little kid, probably to go do the groceries

Good one.
Sounds like the way guys do with their welfare queens at the projects on pay-day.

[bstoffParticipant 4863]

Note that single men and women make roughly the same amount.

Goodbye gender gap, hello slave-/master gap.

[bstoffParticipant 4863]

Morpheus wrote:

I suppose they also take into account divorced millionaires.

If by divorced millionaires, you mean the ex-wives, it would make sense, because their incomes would only include alimony payments.
In fact, alimony payments may not even be computed into this because it certainly isn’t earned income.

[MoreSkyParticipant 4865]

They haven’t taken the obvious into account – married men earn more because they have to.
Being married is extremely expensive.

As a divorced bloke my required income is significantly less even taking into account maintenance payments.

"...reinvent your life because you must; it is your life and its history and the present belong only to you.” It is Your Life, Charles Bukowski.

[SpiderHerderParticipant 3756]

bstoff wrote:

Goodbye gender gap, hello slave-/master gap.

Too true.

[MonkParticipant 16977]

Married men probably do earn more money – they have to.

They just don’t get to keep it.

[CarnageParticipant 22113]

Monk wrote:

Married men probably do earn more money – they have to.
They just don’t get to keep it.

A monk is wise.

To those following me, be careful, I just farted. Men those beans are killers.

[JuehueParticipant 1316]

Monk wrote:

Married men probably do earn more money – they have to.
They just don’t get to keep it.

Yup

Profit = Total revenue – total expenditure

[BeerParticipant 11832]

bstoff wrote:

It’s not discussed in this article, but married men are under more pressure to earn more,
either by working harder for promotion or putting in more time at work, under the threat of divorce from their wives.

Or just having overtime sound more appealing because its better than being around her lol.

[RayBandakuParticipant 888]

Married men may make more money to keep the wife happy while husband is in constant stress and pain trying to keep wife happy. And husband can’t spend the money he makes because wife spends it all for herself.

[Anonymous 3]

All of you are right, married men may make more money because they are forced to.

But: this whole “make more money” is just asking the wrong question.

Reality is:
1. Earnings in real life are the income minus the expenses. And in a marriage / relations~~~ one has to spend a lot of money on s~~~ he wouldn’t think of while being single.

2. Making money costs time. Making more money costs more time for more work being done, typically, if everything else is the same.

Taking everything into account, a married man may work all his hime his ass off and then still be in a much worse financial and life status than alone with less work.

[bstoffParticipant 4863]

If you compare married or even relations~~~ spending, the woman far outspends the man using the man’s money, especially discretionary spending on things like shopping, recreation and entertainment. (Shoes, purses, girls’ night out”)

Take that gap and compare it to the discretionary spending gap between single working men and women and you will notice a HUGE gap.

This should be looked into.

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