Grow up: Life Has Trade-offs

Bullsh*t. In the middle of the 60s and 80s is the 70s, when Nixon cut the gold window and inflation ran riot. It was the 70s inflation that forced 2 income families, not the other way around.

More folks producing more stuff does not create inflation, it usually creates deflation if the money stays stable.

I was afraid someone would read it like that. But the idea is not to oppress anyone, but to protect married couples by bringing back common sense laws that were discarded, such as making adultery unlawful, and discouraging divorce. And the culture needs to change to again make adultery and divorce less socially acceptable.

When a couple gets married, this needs to be respected by the rest of society. Married people need to be seen as “no longer on the market”, and those who try to horn in to their marriage need to be given a firm “no!”, legally if necessary.

Good laws originate from what is called the “social sanction”, which are the unwritten rules created and enforced by the vast majority of society. Written laws hope to codify and rationalize social sanctions so that they are more orderly.

In this case, there needs to be the public realization of the importance of male-female marriage, with the importance it used to have before being discarded for poor reasons. Once this has happened, then the written law will follow.

The law has tacitly admitted that the rationales for marriage were correct, and has tried to duplicate them with ideas like child support. But these are unsatisfactory, compared to the biological benefits of marriage.

Some states have tried to help by creating “covenant marriage”, which is much more difficult to break, but still leaves married couples unprotected from sexual predators who seek to involve themselves with one of the partners.

So, should the activities of serial rapists like Bill Clinton be outlawed? Bill’s motivation is to “fool around” with married women, some willing, some not, then use his power to evade punishment for those things that are still criminal. But his underlying motif is technically legal, that he may try to seduce married women without sanction.

I wanted to be able to spend time with my children in the last few years that they are likely to live at home, crucial years for their development into responsible, productive, happy, and caring adults."

Too late, they are not going to hear a word you say if they are over 15 years of age. All they want from a parent at that age is money, cars and for you to not be around!! "The crucial years" are long gone, while you were making 6 figures in the world, someone else raised them.

High output provides for both the higher incomes and for the increased amount of stuff to buy. It can't cause inflation.

Well, maybe it can for a Keynesian economist but they believe all sorts of strange things.

Milton Friedman wrote "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." Unless those dual income families you complain about were working at the Federal Reserve, what they did had nothing to do with causing inflation.

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