Is it just me?
Or does this seem like an unusual arrangement?Very unusual. (If she's even married at all.)
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Originally Posted by A divorce lawyer:
I am seeing working moms doing it all. She's got the kids, she's got the groceries, she's got the laundry, she's got the meals, she's got the work - and by the way, she's making all the money and she's paying for the house and doing everything else."
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Everyone has their own outlook on life, yes, and the majority have no interest in applying God's perspective; as an easy going person myself I of course respect their life choices – there's only one, really, the choice to blast oneself and one's family into perdition for unendurable yet inescapable torment, described by God as deserved. Although there are many so-called world views, following their precepts has a single outcome in The World To Come, reassuring every Christian that following God's path is the right desision.
Philippians 1
27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ:
that … I may hear of your affairs …
with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries:
which is to them an evident token of perdition,
but to you of salvation,
and that of God.
In all that
kids,
groceries,
laundry,
meals,
work,
money,
house, plus whatever's meant by
everything else, there was no mention of a husband. There may never have been one, in which case the paragraph would still apply. So who owns her? And say there was or is a husband, upon her repudiation, to whom does she then belong? This point was not covered and anyway I can't see the difference between single or married persons having to do housework. Unless staff is available, perhaps. But I would never employ a foreigner, almost all of whom follow major heresies involving idols. Continuing on:
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Funny enough (in a dystopian way), several studies suggest that the greater the gap by which a wife's income outpaces her husband's, the less he does around the house. That's right - the more money a woman makes than her husband, the more work she does around the house. Talk about an unequal division of labor.
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She said, “I'll "dystopian" you!”
In reverse order, how can it be unequal if it's voluntarily entered into? Each partner is equally undertaking the amount of work they've chosen. And since this seems to be an upwardly mobile dual-income household, assuming it's the same house, there won't be extra floor to sweep or shelving to dust. Perhaps they could get one of those Italian bright yellow ovens about 2 yards wide with matching marble countertops (in fact I'd go for red quartzite in this case with the yellow fridge and probably uranium glassware would look quite nice) my point being even then the amount of "work" to "do" would increase only very marginally and in such a home, surely there'd be at least a cleaner? Gardener, probably? They could both just sit there enjoying a nice blue cocktail and if they had any taste at all, there'd be concealed UV lighting so the glasses would glow.
DYSTOPIAN
In exactly the same way, for a given population, the amount of work required for society to function is constant. Ten people necessitate 10 units of work, a thousand people 1,000 units and so on. Maybe more people means a lesser percentage going to transport, in that a population of 1 may need a road but a population of 2 could both use the same road, sort of thing. Who does what doesn't change what needs to be done. Again, as an easy-going type myself, I can see that if a third person turned up desiring oil paintings then someone would have to produce them – but that is entirely voluntary, optional and non-essential. Perhaps a hardliner would say
unnecessary, but neither of us would go so far as
wasteful. So when twice the number of presumably willing hands enter the workforce, given that there's still the same amount work needing to be done, obviously the pay will halve. Then you actually
would need double income households just to stay afloat. Other than the owners of the means of production AND OTHER THAN MAKE-WORK, exactly as presented in the second quoted paragraph.
God understands all this and has explained everything we need to know, even for heretics should they choose to listen. Sadly, they never do.