[HN Gopher] The effects of wealth on (Swedish) marriage and fert...
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The effects of wealth on (Swedish) marriage and fertility
Author : impish9208
Score : 45 points
Date : 2023-04-01 19:57 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| dang wrote:
| Url changed from
| https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/04/th...,
| which points to this.
| djkivi wrote:
| Not just wealth...lottery winners.
| 77pt77 wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Whittaker_(lottery_winner...
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| https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-12-13/lottery-w...
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| This man had his entire life destroyed after winning the lottery.
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| Apart from divorce, other men sued him for ruining their
| marriages by making them look like losers and actually won!
| kif wrote:
| > other men sued him for ruining their marriages by making them
| look like losers and actually won
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| Wait, _what_?!
| readthenotes1 wrote:
| Isn't there a Jane Austen quote that goes something like:
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| Everyone knows a bachelor with an inheritance is in need of a
| wife.
| quadcore wrote:
| "A woman loyalty is tested when a man has nothing. A man
| loyalty is tested when he has everything."
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| Interesting. Who said it?
| lazyeye wrote:
| Or to paraphrase Chris Rock:-
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| In a good neighbourhood the women dont have jobs.
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| In a bad neighbourhood it's the men that don't have jobs.
| debacle wrote:
| That's a great way to paraphrase this. A little
| chauvinistic, but he got slapped I'll cut him a break.
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
| possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
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| Opening line of _Pride and Prejudice_.
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