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ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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I like how the courts can assign huge payments in these rich people divorces because that's the lifestyle they've come to expect but they can't just take rich people's money and give it to someone who literally can't afford food or shelter. Median household income in the us is something like 50/year, this could literally subsidize 20 lower middle class families completely.

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ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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Overwined posted:

That's a lot of money to just stand still.
Who even writes letters anymore, what is she using stationary for.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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Moridin920 posted:

"accustomed to this lifestyle" is the biggest load of horse poo poo ever imo
It somewhat makes sense with kids, not with adults though.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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jackyl posted:

who gives a gently caress? That money wasn't going to feed 20 poors or w/e before they got divorced, why should it after?
It was more to put things in perspective than anything, I just felt this example highlighted misplaced priorities.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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Oh and my bad, 20 was for just 1 million so it's actually that each month you could feed and home 20 families for an entire year for that much. That would be 240 families total a year, even more jarring of a figure as that would be over 500 people factoring in your 'typical household'.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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Like we can take 1 million a month from this guy to keep the life style his ex-wife is accustomed to but we can't take that 1 million a month to feed, clothe, and shelter, ~240 families or around five hundred people a year. There's just something really depressing about that.

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ArbitraryC
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The White Dragon posted:

your math is a little off, she's seeking $1mn/mo. so more like 240 goddamn families.

well maybe we'll get to see the poor peel him like a potato on public access in like a decade


ArbitraryC posted:

Oh and my bad, 20 was for just 1 million so it's actually that each month you could feed and home 20 families for an entire year for that much. That would be 240 families total a year, even more jarring of a figure as that would be over 500 people factoring in your 'typical household'.


ArbitraryC posted:

Like we can take 1 million a month from this guy to keep the life style his ex-wife is accustomed to but we can't take that 1 million a month to feed, clothe, and shelter, ~240 families or around five hundred people a year. There's just something really depressing about that.

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