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For middle class folks, marriage isn't much different than a typical employment contract with a large firm. Marriage usually revolves around house and assets, s
by frongpik 6y ago
For middle class folks, marriage isn't much different than a typical employment contract with a large firm. Marriage usually revolves around house and assets, so your 200k down payment is the 100k sign on bonus for your spouse. Paying out mortgage is the stock vesting plan. Kids are additional stock grants for good performance. Divorce is selling shares.
- actuator 6y agoI would say middle class folks will probably consider marriage to be more important. Like Viktor Frankl would say, the meaning of your life is either from your work, love or courage in difficulty for survival. Most middle class folks I am sure don't fall in third bucket; and a lot of them are just doing 9-5 jobs, probably not doing something which can drive them like say most of the big entrepreneurs or researchers seem to be. So that leaves love, which would become kind of very important to give their life a meaning. Marriage being a vow to have that love lasting throughout seems special. I am in late 20s, and even though I would want to do something great, the strive to find someone compatible with me seems to weigh on my mind more these days.
- frongpik 6y agoThose middle class folks are wasting their lives, then: just like an office job is an illusion of meaningful work, their marriage is an illusion of love.
- germinalphrase 6y agoWhat do you do for a living?