Current Events > columnist to women: Marry poor men so they can earn more

(+) Yeah! (+)

Also, it will make them church goers, so that's cool too

https://nypost.com/2019/09/15/dont-ditch-a-potential-husband-over-his-income/

Theres nothing wrong with women wanting their spouse to be a provider. A 2017 Pew Poll found that 71 percent of American adults said its very important for a man to be able to support a family financially to be a good husband or partner. Dishes arent enough.

But women who dont see a man as marriage material because of his income are seeing it wrong. Marriage is a stabilizing force, and married men are the highest-earning group of adults more than single men, more than anyone.

With good reason. A married man has something to work for in a way one whos single does not. Add children to the mix, and guys will find hungry mouths to feed to be a big motivator to earn.

Of course, a mans potential is harder to see than the number of commas on his bank statement. But smart women should be looking for that, rather than the cash in hand.

Broke men are hurting American women's marriage prospects
Does he work hard? Does he have reasonable plans for how to succeed? Thats worth far more than someone who happens to have some money in the bank right now.

Theres also the obvious truth that its easier to focus on making money and succeeding in your job when you have someone at home rooting for you. Having someone who cares about you and who is unequivocally in your corner does wonders for upward mobility.

In a piece in the Washington Post arguing that marriage offers tangible benefits to men, W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, wrote: Men who get married work harder and more strategically, and earn more money than their single peers from similar backgrounds. Marriage also transforms mens social worlds; they spend less time with friends and more time with family; they also go to bars less and to church more. In the provocative words of Nobel Laureate George Akerlof, men settle down when they get married; if they fail to get married, they fail to settle down.

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Married men work harder because they have to, no sane man wants to work longer hours and harder when they could make ends meet and have a little extra by doing what they do without marriage.

Some people live a simple life, saying married men who have to work harder is just a sad fact, he is likely the sole bread winner so to keep his family clothed and fed he is required to do this or risk early divorce.

Love how the article claims it is a good thing a man spends less time with his friends, the people who actually give a damn about him.
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that's a yikes from me
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if you're not marrying upwards then wtf are you doing
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Like this is a classic case of not understanding statistics. If married men earn more money, that does not mean you can take a single man making a small amount of money, marry him, and suddenly he'll become a person that makes more money. Just yikes.
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sometimes a man just needs a big, strong woman to come along and save him
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Yeah that's a dumb take
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AlephZero posted...

Like this is a classic case of not understanding statistics. If married men earn more money, that does not mean you can take a single man making a small amount of money, marry him, and suddenly he'll become a person that makes more money. Just yikes.

And its not just because high-achieving men are more likely to marry in the first place. Previous studies have shown that when there is no longer a wife enhancing her husbands productivity, the mans on-the-job performance, and hence wages, will decline.

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there's actually a lot of truth to that for me personally. I work a lot harder when I'm in a relationship. when I'm single I basically don't give a shit about things until I need to
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Balrog0 posted...

AlephZero posted...

Like this is a classic case of not understanding statistics. If married men earn more money, that does not mean you can take a single man making a small amount of money, marry him, and suddenly he'll become a person that makes more money. Just yikes.

And its not just because high-achieving men are more likely to marry in the first place. Previous studies have shown that when there is no longer a wife enhancing her husbands productivity, the mans on-the-job performance, and hence wages, will decline.

Well yeah, divorce fucks people up lol
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Oh how the turned tables
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wait I can make more money if I get married? Alright who here wants to tie the knot for money
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Well, people are marrying later nowadays (myself included) in part so that their financials and living situation are relatively stable. Your earning potential generally increases with age, so this article's premise that married men earn more isn't necessarily surprising. Your bank account doesn't automatically double just because you said your "I dos" to someone.
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...

Well, people are marrying later nowadays (myself included) in part so that their financials and living situation are relatively stable. Your earning potential generally increases with age, so this article's premise that married men earn more isn't necessarily surprising. Your bank account doesn't automatically double just because you said your "I dos" to someone.

well it says compared to their "single peers from similar backgrounds" which implies its controlling for demographic differences like age, but idk

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Kazi1212 posted...

Oh how the turned tables

We've stumbled into statistically proving what our great-grandparents knew all along.
The alleged gender pay gap is almost always a "Mommy Tax".
Single women out-earn single men. Married men out earn everyone else, and married fathers earn more than that. Mothers get screwed.

Balrog0 posted...

AlephZero posted...

Like this is a classic case of not understanding statistics. If married men earn more money, that does not mean you can take a single man making a small amount of money, marry him, and suddenly he'll become a person that makes more money. Just yikes.

And its not just because high-achieving men are more likely to marry in the first place. Previous studies have shown that when there is no longer a wife enhancing her husbands productivity, the mans on-the-job performance, and hence wages, will decline.

I believe the word they are looking for is slave driver, or over seer, trying to doll up that shit as wife enhancing her husbands productivity is laughable. The plain truth is a wife will demand he earn more so she can buy more useless shit, or stuff that makes her life better. This is when a wife believes the husband is a wallet with legs and his money is actually her money.
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

I believe the word they are looking for is slave driver, or over seer, trying to doll up that shit as wife enhancing her husbands productivity is laughable. The plain truth is a wife will demand he earn more so she can buy more useless shit, or stuff that makes her life better. This is when a wife believes the husband is a wallet with legs and his money is actually her money.

Damn... are you eating those red pills by the handful?

crushing them into little lines most likely
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Balrog0 posted...

Of course, a mans potential is harder to see than the number of commas on his bank statement. But smart women should be looking for that, rather than the cash in hand.

Broke men are hurting American women's marriage prospects
Does he work hard? Does he have reasonable plans for how to succeed? Thats worth far more than someone who happens to have some money in the bank right now.

I'd agree with that. For both men and women
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lol at wanting kids or wanting to go to church.
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Machete posted...

lol at wanting kids or wanting to go to church.

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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

Balrog0 posted...

AlephZero posted...

Like this is a classic case of not understanding statistics. If married men earn more money, that does not mean you can take a single man making a small amount of money, marry him, and suddenly he'll become a person that makes more money. Just yikes.

And its not just because high-achieving men are more likely to marry in the first place. Previous studies have shown that when there is no longer a wife enhancing her husbands productivity, the mans on-the-job performance, and hence wages, will decline.

I believe the word they are looking for is slave driver, or over seer, trying to doll up that shit as wife enhancing her husbands productivity is laughable. The plain truth is a wife will demand he earn more so she can buy more useless shit, or stuff that makes her life better. This is when a wife believes the husband is a wallet with legs and his money is actually her money.

lol get a load of this incel

@Mystery_Mission

Being a married slave is nothing to be proud of, when a man dates this kinda stupidity is not an issue.

Having a long term girlfriend is better then marriage now because of all the shitty laws that screw men over who are foolish enough in invite the government into their relationship.

Have fun with risking divorce which women initiate 70% of the time with divorce rates still being 65%.
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I dont get this

>complain about men earning more than women and gender wage gaps (mind you they seem to forget the concept that it is on average, not for the exact same job/circumstances)
>still expect men they date/marry to earn more than them

Is this meant to be a parody ??
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toyota posted...

I dont get this

>complain about men earning more than women and gender wage gaps (mind you they seem to forget the concept that it is on average, not for the exact same job/circumstances)
>still expect men they date/marry to earn more than them

Not wanting to date broke guys =/= guy has to make more than them