Contrarian take on gender wage gapfrom @womp_tomp

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Wage gap is just married guys earning more than everybody. Because in order to stay married, you have to earn double your wife or she will suck up the mailman. And then women spend that money anyway. You think guys are spending $200,000? I can't think of a suggested birthday present for myself. I don't want anything. Everyone talks about the wage gap. Nobody talks about tier who ends up spending the damn money gap. Not equal. Remember when people were talking about how we have to fix this? We need to change the system. What are you gonna do? Tell the husbands to stay home? Oh, yeah. Sacrifice your marriage and have your wife look at you like a gay little boy no we can, like, appeal to this abstract national metric of equality with no context? I think not. And part of the reason they can actually make that much money too is because their wife handles the domestic labor, which allows them to focus solely on their career, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's actually a very bougie idea to think that homemakers, like, don't do anything, don't contribute economically in the world. She's not just, like, lounging about taking Quaaludes because her husband is, like, a giant oil tycoon. Working class households work together. The income is the income for the household, so it's pathological and weird to try to divide those lines according to gender. She's working for the good of her family, which is the point of the economy to begin with. All professions exist so homemakers can worst. And spending money stimulating the economy, and nine times out of 10, the husband needs her just as much as she needs him.