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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,alt.abortion.inequity,alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Privacy -- and responsibility
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 02:03:26 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- References: <1jg739INNl6g@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan19.193048.24709@ll.mit.edu> <1jkhsiINNese@gap.caltech.edu> <C181zo.B04@ddsw1.mcs.com>
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- karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
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- >In article <1jkhsiINNese@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>
- >>Not so. According to The Economist (Christmas issue, 1992) usually the
- >>woman's standard of living drops after divorce. Often that of the man
- >>rises.
-
- >So what? The salient question is this:
-
- > Did her standard of living <rise> when she got married? If so, then
- > she has <returned> to her former standard of living, and has not
- > been screwed in any way.
-
- No, actually the salient question would be: how does her post-divorce
- standard of living compare to (1) what her standard of living would
- be in the present if she had never married; and (2) what her standard
- of living would be in the present if she had stayed married.
-
- Unfortunately, as with most "what-if"s, the answers to this question
- is impossible to ascertain.
- --
-
- -- Michal
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