thrden
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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Even if we set aside any potential spiritual, or child-rearing value. Marriage is a very important institution in helping people achieve economic mobility, it increases your household income significantly, as well as seriously reducing your cost of living. Anecdotally, my cost of living was drastically reduced when my girlfriend and I moved in together (thereby splitting a 1BR), however given that we aren't married we individually have to save a good amount of money in cash accounts in case of a breakup. If we were married, we could reduce our cash savings by 50% and instead invest that money into the open market. Moreover, we would be far more likely to take care of the other financially if one went to school if we were married. Marriage, and the commitment it entails changes the attitudes of individuals towards each other by ensuring that we can plan for a combined future. all that exists outside of societally constructed benefits like joint taxation and healthcare.
Comment · 6 years ago
digging into this, it doesn't seem to adjust for CoL but competitiveness of the market. Seattle and NYC have the same salary bracket, but NYC is by far more expensive. Nerd Wallet claims the city is between 37% to -6% more expensive depending on where you live (Manhattan vs Queens)
Comment · 7 years ago
Rent Control in NYC actually disproportionately benefits wealthier New Yorkers.[1]
https://ny.curbed.com/2019/6/12/18662844/rent-regulation-stu...
Comment · 7 years ago
If this is a lander what will they use to deliver the lander to lunar orbit? I'll admit I don't follow this sort of news very closely, but it seems quite exciting.
Comment · 7 years ago
do you have any public writing? I'd be interested in reading what you've written.
Comment · 7 years ago
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Comment · 7 years ago
its the 4 most recent decades covered by census data. Although you're right to point out that suburbia had its primacy in this time period, the researcher can't be faulted for looking for the highest quality, most recent data.
Comment · 8 years ago
Socialized Medicine and Education are often discussed in this context. However, if we look at Europe where student debt is minimal, and medicine is provided by the state fertility rates are even lower.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm not quite sure how to parse that particular piece of data. It seems as though it may be nominal if we consider that the Household Debt-to GDP ratio is substantially decreased from 2008. Further, household debt service ratios have also decreased substantially (by roughly 30%).
Comment · 8 years ago
I know this has already been down voted, but I want to point out that this exact dialog was invented by the soviet union to distract from their abysmal human rights records[1]. Moreover, it doesn't even make sense as a deflection given that the Soviet Union had institutional racism at a very high level, ranging from antisemitism [2] to ethnic cleansing[3] to outright genocide[3]. America is certainly guilty of racism, and we should discuss these issues. However, it should not be used as a weapon to defend evil regimes.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_and_antisemitism
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Soviet_Union#Kor...
Comment · 8 years ago
I believe this is because poverty rate is determined on a national scale, whereas this factors in California's particularly high cost of living.
[1] https://diplopundit.net/2017/05/08/statedeptusaid-staffing-c...