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Henry Moore used to live over his studio. Whenever the noise of his chisel stopped, his wife would call down and ask why he had stopped working.
by pg 14y ago
Henry Moore used to live over his studio. Whenever the noise of his chisel stopped, his wife would call down and ask why he had stopped working.
- jc4p 14y agoEconomically speaking, I'm fairly certain finding a wife is more expensive than a $8/hr freelancer though.
- dllthomas 14y agoDepends on what else you're getting out of the arrangement.
- wisty 14y agoA spouse might already be a sunk cost.
- kscaldef 14y agoIf your wife expects you to support her financially. Fortunately, such arrangements are no longer mandatory.
- TallGuyShort 14y ago... or if she expects to date you and be impressed before marrying you...
- edictive 14y agoThat’s right, you are not going to get any one cheaper to change your adult diapers. HA!
- nuje 14y agoI don't know if you're a rich guy planning to marry down in the social hierarchy, living in a culture where where women don't work or just a misogynist but this is generally false in the west. Dual incomes with a single household is very economical compared to life as a single. See eg. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dinks.asp http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dinks.asp "A household in which there are two incomes and no children (either both partners are working or one has two incomes). DINKS are often the target of marketing efforts for luxury items such as expensive cars and vacations."
- Retric 14y agoExcept this if the wife can hear you working then it's probably not a dual income home. Edit: Prior probabilities yada yada.
- sethbannon 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moore
- thechut 14y agoThank you!
- slewis 14y agoAnd this, folks, is one of the reasons yc discourages single founders!
- jamesaguilar 14y agoInteresting, is this legal? At first I thought it wouldn't be, but then I realized that an investor relationship might not be one of the relationships protected by workplace sexual harassment laws.
- alex_c 14y agoEr... "single founders" as in "only one founder", as opposed to "two founders or more".
- jamesaguilar 14y agoOhhhhh. I thought he meant. Well, you see what I thought he meant. Because of the sculptor and the wife and that stuff.
- jontas 14y agoI believe it was meant to be a pun :)
- tptacek 14y agoAnti-discrimination laws do not apply to investors. In fact, in California, they don't even apply to independent contractors.
- fourk 14y agoInteresting. I'm curious about the legality of a company putting all or most prospective employees through a 'trial run' as an independent contractor before hiring them. Ignoring feasibility of attracting talent in such a system, are there laws in place to prevent such practices being used to circumvent anti discrimination laws?