Yeah, nope. That just pushes the stress of dealing with potential messy split-ups onto the wider population and leads to societal chaos and decay.

Let's not make hookup culture the norm.

BREAKING: Unrealized losses in the U.S. Banking System increased to $517 billion in Q1

And we can thank the money printer for that smh

These seemed more like social contracts. I’m not disagreeing but I see it a little different. When I watch weddings, especially eastern weddings, they are very clearly ritualistic traditions that have been passed down. They put these fancy dresses on and do these specific dances in front of the couple. It’s literally like the tribe is all coming together and acknowledging that only Peter gets to fuck Susan. We do this to keep peace in the tribe because all the men were killing each other over the women. So now instead of having one alpha get all the women, like in the animal kingdom, we have this marriage contract.

There are two natural forms of contracts between the sexes: marriage and prostitution.

Both predate the church and the state. Those began mediating and standardizing the contracts, to prevent men from killing each other and to limit the amount of alms needed for abandoned women.

There are two natural forms of contracts between the sexes: marriage and prostitution.

Both predate the church and the state. Those began mediating and standardizing the contracts, to prevent men from killing each other and to limit the amount of alms needed for abandoned women.

I haven’t looked into the history enough to conclusively say this but it seems that marriage is inherently statist. It has all the qualities of control you’d expect from extortionists. Women became the property of her husband and took on his last name. Her father would get some type of payment. What other reason did anyone have for writing a marriage contract before? Taxes? It seems like it was just for record keeping. Whether it’s government, a monarch, or the church. It all seems to serve the same purpose.

The social contract is a huge element that is missing today. When you breach a contract and you don’t make the victim whole, the market penalizes you for that. People won’t do business with you or interact with you. It’s more costly to ostracized because of your mistreatment of a past partner or business associate.

There is no way to establish a norm fairly. Previous standards in which women had no rights, and were literally property, was the norm before. We don’t need norms. We don’t need standardization. We don’t need rulers and governing bodies. We just need free individuals peacefully cooperating and consenting to their partnerships. The rest will sort itself out.

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Wish I could zap this

I don’t think it should be relative to his station. I think it should be an amount that both agree on without any form of coercion. I also think that both people should be able to leave the union at any point in time. This allows both of them to always have a fair negotiating position. The problem with marriage contracts is that they take away your ability to easily leave. People treat their gf/bf better than their spouse because of that fact.

That’s something that should be negotiated and agreed upon beforehand. Some women would be glad to marry that wealthy man and be paid what she feels she is worth and not based on his relative position. Which is a silly thing to even try. There is no way to quantify that. Now you’re talking about her getting 50% of the money he makes and we’re back to the same problem we started with. Just let them negotiate and consensually agree beforehand. If either person doesn’t like it then they can be with someone else.

I drive a 200 ton dump truck in a gold mine. They're designed to haul 200-250 tons of rock at a time.

They're actually very fascinating machines.

Look up the Komatsu 830E haul truck. That's what I drive.

Oh and they burn 3500 liters or so of fuel in a 24 hour period.

The mine I work at has 18 active trucks.

3 shovels (they use more)

2 loaders (similar to the shovels)

And a whole array of support equipment.

Needless to say, when a climate activist starts whining, I just laugh.

man we do not need another Lord of the rings spin off, the movies are perfect and we don't need a full one on the hunt for gollum

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#China sold a record amount of Treasury and US agency bonds in the first quarter, highlighting the Asian nation’s move to diversify away from American assets as trade tensions persist.