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> even marriage now depends on school. The share of marriages in which both partners possess college degrees grew by 800 percent from 1960 to 2010. This is a m
by Bukhmanizer 5y ago
> even marriage now depends on school. The share of marriages in which both partners possess college degrees grew by 800 percent from 1960 to 2010.
This is a meaningless statistic unless we know the base rate of people with college degrees in 1960 and 2010.
- Bukhmanizer 5y agocont. > Child-care workers, for example, give much more to society than they take from it, generating almost 10 times as great a social product as they capture in private wages. Bankers and lawyers, by contrast, capture private wages that exceed their social product—they take more than they give. Look up the citations for this claim. It all seems like complete nonsense to me. AFAI can tell, they just pulled numbers out of thin air.