Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It used to be that you needed a partner to survive, either for the money or for the unpaid labor, so you had to put up with Spouse X's various flaws. These days we're rich and it's much more viable to be single — though this is probably bad for kids. https://t.co/W8zR3UhT3G — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 8, 2023

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Most middle-class women don't want the 1950s lifestyle for good reasons, but it's not objectively unaffordable for someone with an average husband. Note of course that there are tons of single parents in 2022! In part precisely because material living standards have risen. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 8, 2023

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@ponderwall Yes, minimum wage workers are much poorer than the average person which was also true in the fifties. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 8, 2023