Yes indeed, and that applies in many different aspects of married life. Recognition of the gifts and abilities of each is going to benefit the household, but responsibility for the outcomes rests with the husband.
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Just paid off the car today, now two cars that I hold title on. Mortgage free on the home I live in and close to paying off a rental. A lot to be said for the kind of freedom that allows one to have.
There really is. Now I have to start building something. Or exploring something, an adventure that other people want to be a part of.
Well, you are a moderator here! That's a pretty big deal! Focus on driving this endeavor forward, or whatever drives you. You will always excel at whatever your passion is. You know that at some point down the road, the current leadership will want to step aside, and you may be next in line. I will tell you, I would not have known about Dr. William Luck, if I had not seen you mention him on one of your YouTube videos. Continue to build this movement, because you seem to be doing well here.
Hey! I was useful! How about that.
Rather curious about that as well
Excellent and congrats
Both wives paid off, now just gotta clear the mortgage on the kids.
True. Though in recent decades I think this stems partially from a lot of modern women greatly overestimating the definition of the word "provide for." If you have a roof over your head, food on your plate, and the spiritual guidance of a Godly husband, you're provided for. Let's recall Jacob was an entry-level farm-hand living in a tent provided by his employer when he married his first two wives.
Absolutely! When someone new is investigating, your videos are high enough on the YouTube search engines, that people who are trying to find the truth, often need to know where to look, and something like that, can make a huge impact!
He married into a rich family.
He earned what he left with, although the stripes/spots negotiations were interesting.
Hmmmm, interesting strategy. Find a rich uncle with at least one beautiful daughter, and one that is sorta, meh! Start working for him and negotiate to take his younger daughter, so that he will trick you into marrying his older daughter. Of course you should be single if you are going to try this, because if you already have a wife, you kinda need to support her first. After you have been tricked into marrying the older daughter, agree to work another seven years so that you can have both daughters. Now then if the younger daughter is barren, you might end up also getting the handmaids of BOTH daughters! Boom! That should work!
I may have over emphasized the economic conditions. I think its more correlation than causation. The kind of men who can pull off polygyny are also the kind of men who can achieve economically.
There are certainly woman who are poor at that, I am not sure that men on average demonstrate competency here.
In the USA the best demonstration of financial illiteracy is bros in $80,000+pickups. If they can wirte them off as a business expense then sure, but not on a 4,5,6 year personal lease...... And these are like sand on a beach. Go to a Ford, Chevy, Ram dealership and look how many $80,000 pickups they have on the lot. It is mind blowing.
Yeah Larry Burkett talked about that. He said that women spend a lot of money, but when we men spend, we like to spend big.
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Ask yourself, How much are some women spending annually on hairdos, makeup, manicure, pedicure, botox, cuts n' tucks, fashion, and whatever else? Some women are only liabilities, so it's no wonder men no longer want them for marriage. The sense of entitlement exhibited by such women is laughable.
Some of that is desirable. Some of that, a second wife could help out with (e.g. manicure, pedicure). It's a nice luxury to have a wife or two that is dolled up. Now a man can marry later in life and build up his wealth, but the feminist movement is wholeheartedly against him marrying a woman at the peak of her fertility. They hate the inequality! So the men marry BEFORE they have reached their peak, and the women they usually marry are already hitting their peak.
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It's not that simple. A career could imply that she already has the education she would need. Even then, her earning potential is often not as much as her husband's. Any career is going to bring more earning potential with experience; it takes years of experience for someone in my career field to move up to being a Principal Software Engineer, but there is an inordinate amount of cost asssociated with child care. Now it depends on the education and career fields that each spouse has chosen, who should go out into the workforce and who should stay home, but generally speaking, the husband is usually the breadwinner, and if he is not, he probably shouldn't be thinking about polygyny. Now, once a husband who is the breadwinner has been able to get a second wife, one of the wives may be able to have the career. With each additional wife, comes more flexibility.
When my wife works, sometimes she is too tired to cook. If we order out at Olive Garden, that is an expense that we have to take into account. We have two cars right now, but she doesn't like to drive, and one of the vehicles is out of commission, and it will take a significant amount of money to get it repaired. I have to take into account whether the expense of having a second working car will be offset by her earnings. Also, I am (for lack of a better word) transitioning from working a regular job, to being a contractor that can work multiple jobs, but that will require more time than a regular job would, and that is time that I will not be able to spend doing household duties. Here is definitely an area where a second wife would be quite useful. Since right now, I only have one wife, I have to weigh whether her working outside the home is going to give her the ability to earn more money than I could be making, if I were to focus on taking advantage of those opportunities.
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