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Comment · 8 years ago
I met an underwriter through synagogue who works at the predatory lending office mentioned in this article (Queen Funding LLC). I will have a talk with him about this..
Comment · 8 years ago
There's plenty of space elsewhere in the country, why not relocate your family to the Midwest? You can get a cheap home and there are plenty of jobs
Comment · 8 years ago
And that's why the ideal is a choice between cash and electronic currency.

Sweden made cash (practically) illegal so now everyone has one less choice.

Comment · 8 years ago
I know a bunch of beautiful, accomplished women with great jobs who can't find good men to start a family with. Young mens' failure-to-launch is becoming a big problem....
Comment · 8 years ago
or men of any race who get the "walking behind a nervous women while male" treatment when walking around their city at night
Comment · 8 years ago
You propose taxing a company on their revenue and also taxing individuals when they realize their capital gains?

Such a high level of double taxation would kill all investment in this country overnight

Comment · 8 years ago
> Men do not work as teachers because the media has painted men as "sex crazed". Most mothers would be uncomfortable with having a male 4th grade teacher for their daughter.

> Many women would be uncomfortable having a male gynecologist or a male nurse helping them deliver their baby.

And what is your opinion of the above bit of my previous post (since you avoided that in your answer?)

Comment · 8 years ago
Possibility 1: Male-dominated fields discriminate against females.

Possibility 2: Those fields are male-dominated because they can't get into female-dominated fields.

Men do not work as teachers because the media has painted men as "sex crazed". Most mothers would be uncomfortable with having a male 4th grade teacher for their daughter.

Many women would be uncomfortable having a male gynecologist or a male nurse helping them deliver their baby.

> Doctors (high prestige, high pay) are about 70% male.

Sorry but this breaks your narrative: 60% of new MDs each year are female. However: female MDs are more likely to quit the profession or go part time in order to raise kids. Again, this might show anti-male discrimination because it is not socially acceptable for male doctors to quit work to stay home with the kids.

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The above suggests to me that there's indeed a huge level of bias and discrimination, but not in the way you think.

Comment · 8 years ago
Using an IQ test in order to hire is actually illegal. If only the laws were that simple..
Comment · 8 years ago
> And that's where hands come up empty.

Maybe anti-male sexism prevalent in the health care and education fields is causing women to prefer those fields.

Fix the sexism in health care/education. Elementary teachers should be 50% men. Nurses should be 50% men. Instead those fields are 90%(!) women! That is a HUGE level of bias and discrimination

Comment · 8 years ago
No body thinks that. You're way outside the overton window.

Why is the health care field heavily biased in favor or female nurses and doctors? Are women smarter than men when it comes to biology/anatomy?

Comment · 8 years ago
Absolutely the patent system is underfunded.

We need to force companies to pay a yearly "patent maintenance fee" which will pay for the governments costs in defending and enforcing patents.

We are sick of subsidizing patent enforcement for giant corporations

Comment · 8 years ago
> If you look deep enough into the history of any modestly large Amercian city

Sadly this is true for any multicultural city in any country of the world

Comment · 8 years ago
Regardless of if theres a equivalence there or not, he's right that Texas and Georgia are in the unusual position of both having a ton of jobs and very reasonable housing market.

Granted SF is space constrained, but there is no excuse for other parts of Cali to be so expensive.

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