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Women are responsible for 80% of the consumer spending. If we assume men and women have equal pay, then 3/5 of men's income is spent by women. If women make 20-
by hajile 3y ago
Women are responsible for 80% of the consumer spending. If we assume men and women have equal pay, then 3/5 of men's income is spent by women. If women make 20-30% less overall, then women are actually spending more than 3/4 of all the money men make.
If men are handing 60-75% of their money over to their wives/partners to spend, I'd assert that those women are getting paid better than men are.
- titanomachy 3y agoThis is the dumbest take I’ve seen in a while. Perhaps “buying stuff for the household” is just another chore that a non-working partner has more time for? It’s not like the average young family’s consumer spending is mostly discretionary purchases the wife makes to amuse herself.
- hajile 3y agoDo you really think all of that is solely for the household and that the man is scrutinizing every single penny? Setting that aside, once you have a family, nobody is going to have much discretionary money and they’ll have even less with just one income earner.