Ep 177 | Shacking Up Is for Financial Fools

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

Religion, Philosophy, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Wall Street Journal is utterly baffled why married couples make much more money than couples living together. All the data confirms that single people, divorced people, and couples who cohabit make much less money than married couples. In fact, the literature is irrefutable on this. If you care about poverty, you need to care about marriage. The colossal question is why. How does your back account or your budget, or your credit card balance know or care whether you and your significant other signed a piece of paper? The compelling answer will astound you. It has something to do with the Bro-Code—never date your buddy’s ex-girlfriend. It has to do with why guys care about a girl’s ‘body-count’. It has to do with the miracle of exponential arithmetic. Don’t miss this offer of a free lesson in Scrolling Through Scripture just for Happy Warriors https://www.wehappywarriors.com/scrolling-through-scripture-free-lesson Happy Warriors are not tennis balls floating down the gutter of life. Instead, we find joy in confronting life’s challenges and overcoming obstacles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Blaze Radio Network.
0:03.0	And now, the Rabbi Daniel Appen Show.
0:05.0	The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.
0:10.0	Never change.
0:11.0	This is Rabbi Daniel Appen on demand, on the Blaze Radio Network.
0:16.0	Greetings, happy warriors, and welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapinin Showy, or Rabbi, that would be me,
0:24.6	reveals how the world really works. And today we're going to look at one of the very interesting ways in which the world really works.
0:39.3	And it's so interesting that it baffles even as august a body as the Wall Street Journal.
0:50.3	The Wall Street Journal ran the story on November the 8th, 2022, and since then, about a hundred other
1:02.7	journals around the world have picked up the story and reprinted it. And the headline is as follows,
1:17.8	moving in together does not match the financial benefits of marriage.
1:19.7	But why?
1:21.7	Yes, that's right.
1:24.7	The last part, but why is in the headline.
1:26.7	That's what it actually says.
1:31.3	Moving in together does not match the financial benefits of marriage. But why?
1:34.2	Completely baffled about this.
1:38.2	Now, in general, by the time something makes it to the popular press, it's already been
1:43.8	in the specialist
1:46.5	literature for years and years and sure enough it wasn't hard for me to go back
1:52.1	and discover stuff a big story appeared in the Federalist in 2017, November 2017,
2:01.6	and in various other scholarly journals,
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