This will be kind of skewed towards the wealthy, as marriages are becoming less obtainable by the lower classes.
How so? There isn’t much paperwork and you will save on taxes.
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#42This will be kind of skewed towards the wealthy, as marriages are becoming less obtainable by the lower classes.
Marriage is actually a great financial choice for most people. If marriage rates are dropping, I'd blame our culture — the financial incentives are clearly there.
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#44This will be kind of skewed towards the wealthy, as marriages are becoming less obtainable by the lower classes.
A theory I once read goes like this: in the past it was quite common for lawyers, directors, managers to marry their secretaries, which was the way for them to jump to higher social class. Now, a director making advances towards their secretary faces immediate sexual harassment lawsuit, so they choose to marry other managers/directors instead.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did the price of marriage paperwork go up or something? How can a marriage be "less obtainable"?
There is a difference between wedding and marriage. A wedding paperwork is not too expensive, but a marriage has truly become unaffordable.
What is expensive about marriage? I’m trying to think of reasons. Taxes? It can be advantageous to stay single, but I wouldn’t say this is that big. Kids? Another mouth to feed and educate is wildly expensive, but I doubt this is what we’re talking about. Rent/buying a home? Cheaper to share a space I’d think. I think I’m missing something.
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#46I was not surprised to see that programmers marry other programmers
I actually married a hairstylist. It turns out, a lot about programming and cutting hair are similar. She has to understand the requirements and implement it exactly right, the first time. I also learned that bartering is alive and well in that world. People would trade all kinds of things for a haircut that they didn’t have to tell their spouse how much it cost: vacation rentals, private box concert tickets, sailing charters, etc. My wife worked in a high-end salon.
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#47Honestly the manicurists marrying other manicurists makes me think that the data is bad.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did the price of marriage paperwork go up or something? How can a marriage be "less obtainable"?
There is a difference between wedding and marriage. A wedding paperwork is not too expensive, but a marriage has truly become unaffordable.
How has marriage become unaffordable? In what way? I'm really asking.
Seems to me two people with two incomes living in a 1 bedroom apartment is cheaper than one.
Nearly everything is cheaper when you're married: Insurance, taxes, meals, utilities.
What's less expensive as a single?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a difference between wedding and marriage. A wedding paperwork is not too expensive, but a marriage has truly become unaffordable.
I have no idea what this means. Are you talking about the societal standards of what marriage is? something else? There were 4 people at my wedding. It was only marginally more expensive than the paperwork.
You know the big fancy wedding for 50-300 people in a hotel? That's expensive. I forget the sociological terminology but getting married has gone from a "We're getting started" to a "We have arrived" statement and the wedding is meant to show that, which is expensive.
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#50Many anecdotal guesses are validated by this data. Doctors and agricultural workers are the obvious standouts, but I see a few more too. Us programmers stick together. Quite a high rate of marrying within the community. Lawyers show a similarly high number. A criticism of the study, is that it does not normalize by how many of these professions are in the general population. So, it appears as though software analysts…
> Us programmers stick together. Quite a high rate of marrying within the community.
nobody else would take our schtick ...