This is less true. Women control the overwhelming majority of dollars spent from family households in the west. Men are so passive it's sad. Women often decide what house is bought when house shopping (for most families this is the largest spending decision they'll make). Cars purchased by families are marketed towards women (SUVs and Minivans), designed for women (moms, really), and ultimately bought by women.
It's amazing. Men are instinctively more pragmatic. Aesthetics and status matter less when your concerns of survival are adequate commuting from school/work/extracuricculars so as long as those baseline requirements are met, the women take the helm from there.
Women control the overwhelming majority of dollars spent from family households in the west.
There is a difference between spending money and managing the finances of the household. There was a story recently about a kid that managed to spend something like 20k on streamers that the parents are unable to get back. Is the child managing that houses finances or did he spend money and now the ones actually responsible for the finances are left trying to figure out how to patch things up?
The same is true of families in the west. The vast majority of women suck at managing money, but spend it like they're democrats handing out ballots. They then look to their husbands, boyfriends, and the random "guy friends" single women keep around just for that purpose to bail them out of the hole the woman got into. For the most part the men do by taking extra shifts, or getting a second job, or opening up another credit card. These same men then get told by their wives and girlfriends that he "can't" buy things he wants because "they don't have the money" because SHE needs the money to spend on stupid and pointless things.
"My money is my money, but his money is our money."
This is less true. Women control the overwhelming majority of dollars spent from family households in the west. Men are so passive it's sad. Women often decide what house is bought when house shopping (for most families this is the largest spending decision they'll make). Cars purchased by families are marketed towards women (SUVs and Minivans), designed for women (moms, really), and ultimately bought by women.
It's amazing. Men are instinctively more pragmatic. Aesthetics and status matter less when your concerns of survival are adequate commuting from school/work/extracuricculars so as long as those baseline requirements are met, the women take the helm from there.
There is a difference between spending money and managing the finances of the household. There was a story recently about a kid that managed to spend something like 20k on streamers that the parents are unable to get back. Is the child managing that houses finances or did he spend money and now the ones actually responsible for the finances are left trying to figure out how to patch things up?
The same is true of families in the west. The vast majority of women suck at managing money, but spend it like they're democrats handing out ballots. They then look to their husbands, boyfriends, and the random "guy friends" single women keep around just for that purpose to bail them out of the hole the woman got into. For the most part the men do by taking extra shifts, or getting a second job, or opening up another credit card. These same men then get told by their wives and girlfriends that he "can't" buy things he wants because "they don't have the money" because SHE needs the money to spend on stupid and pointless things.
"My money is my money, but his money is our money."