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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: Privacy -- and responsibility
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:52:25 GMT
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- peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
- >
- >>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.
-
- But some feminists seem to do it every day, Michal. Even more so in Canada.
-
- (By the way, why do you quote the Economist and in your next article
- then say it was not the salient question to consider?)
-
- Don
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