| SamuelRSmith said: How the fuck do you embed videos, nowadays? Why must it always change?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDhcqua3_W8
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I was going to point out something similar for bannedagain, but I thought I would just be wasting my time ...
One of the problems with inequality metrics (including the graph I used earlier) is that they don't control for other factors. Age is one factor that is well demonstrated by your video, and few people expect an 18 year old straight out of highschool to have the same earning potential as a 50 year old. Secondly, there is household composition as was pointed out (partially) by bannedagain ... Since the 1960s the number of single parent households has increased while, at the same time, the number of dual income homes has also increased; and the trend has been for women to choose more ambitious careers, while (at the same time) choosing a partner with an achievement level similar or greater to her own.
When you combine these together, we end up comparing a dual income household with a Doctor and a Lawyer at the end of their career against a single income household at the beginning of their career and complain that there is inequality between them.
