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[quote=Anonymous]I know a whole bunch of couples where the wives had government careers and the husbands had private sector careers. Both halves of the couple seemed to want this. The wife wanted to be provided for and the husband wanted to be the provider. The private sector was much more competitive than the government for most of my adulthood. You could coast pretty easily in the government but usually not in the private sector. Private sector employers tended to fire people more frequently. So some men ended up making twice or even five times what their wives made, but some men ended up struggling, feeling bad about themselves and appearing uninspiring to their wives. Trump is changing this dynamic in some households because he's firing so many government workers, some of whom were actually very high performers by the standards of their professions but low earners by private sector standards. I realize that in some households, a man with a government job is the higher earning spouse, but that's not usually the situation in my social circle. Regardless of whether the husband or wife works in the government, households depending on government salaries don't usually have a lot of spare cash and are freaking out. If you lose your job in a field where the government was the primary employer or funder, you can have a really hard time. Between Trump firing people who weren't supporting the Trump agenda and AI making lots of positions expendable in some industries, things are getting tough for some families. [/quote]
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