Here’s an idea to bridge the divide on abortion: codify sexual responsibility for men into the law. If a woman carries a child to term, she can automatically make the man fully $$ responsible both for herself and for the child, if confirmed by paternity test. Should be an idea that both parties can agree on.
Elon Musk responded with “Yes”. You’d think that he would already be aware of the U.S. system; see “Elon Musk Battles To Keep Custody Case In Texas Where Child Support Is Capped At $2,760 Per Month For 3 Kids, Despite Being The Richest Man In The World”:
Elon Musk is in the midst of a custody battle with Grimes, and things are getting as complicated as a SpaceX mission.
According to reports from Business Insider, Musk initially filed in Texas, accusing Grimes of moving to California to avoid the Lone Star State’s child support cap of $2,760 per month for three kids.
Grimes fired back with a countersuit in California, seeking physical custody. Musk reportedly had custody of their 3-year-old son X Æ A-Xii against Grimes’ wishes. The different child support limits in California, where there’s no cap, could mean a hefty sum for Musk, currently the richest person in the world.
Given that family court profits are a huge sector of the U.S. economy and Vivek was claiming to be qualified to run the whole thing, I find it fascinating that Vivek is unfamiliar with the current system in which having sex with an already-married specialist physician can yield a spending power equivalent to what an American who goes through medical school and residency to work as a primary care doc can enjoy (profitability depends heavily on the state in which the plaintiff resides/sues). Some lawyers who specialize in this area refer to child support as “woman support” since the typical plaintiff identifies as female, the money is paid to the adult plaintiff, and there is no requirement that a successful plaintiff spend any of the family court profits on the child.
Hunter Biden was reported to be paying $20,000 per month to Lunden Roberts (Daily Mail), thus giving her an after-tax spending power in excess of a primary care doc’s (the $240,000 per year was tax-free). Why wouldn’t someone in politics such as Vivek have followed the Biden family and thus learned that sex in the U.S. can pay better than most jobs?
Of course, it isn’t just Vivek. Twitter shows over 5,000 replies to the post. Most of them seem to be from people unaware that it is already possible to get a court-ordered paternity test and then 18-23 years of cashflow (depending on the state).
How can this blind spot be explained?
Related:
- “Nia Long to Receive $32,000 a Month in Child Support from Ex Ime Udoka” (People), a recent story about a plaintiff who was formerly the sex partner of an NBA player/coach
So all these 30 year old model shape women he’s banged in the name of fighting population collapse are either not receiving payments from him or very little. If they ever do come after him, look out.
Why wouldn’t someone in politics such as Vivek have followed the Biden family and thus learned that sex in the U.S. can pay better than most jobs? Vivek is still on his starter wife. After the divorce he will be able to contribute a full chapter to real word divorce!
How can this blind spot be explained? The ignorance of youth.
He didn’t bang many… the guy is a complete nerd. Source: my daughter used to go to his parties but decided he and others from PayPal mafia are not in her league. As in “way below”.
Vivek’s ignorance knows no bound.
This is the guy who wanted to let Putin keep the occupied share of Ukraine and ban Ukraine from NATO as long as Putin promised to cut ties with China.
He assumed that: (1) we have the power to give away parts of another country, and (2) Putin, after a non-stop string of lies about Ukraine, is done telling lies and can be trusted from here on out.
He’s the dumb guy’s smart guy.
…and you win Dumb guy’s dumb guy award!🥇
“How can this blind spot be explained?”
No men really know about this unless they or their loved ones have experienced it first-hand, or they went to law school.
The first time I heard about it was when I was around 20. My sister told me that she had talked to the new neighbors 2 doors down. The single-mom neighbor bragged that she didn’t work and just lived off child-support. Nice house. My father wondered why the beautiful teenage daughter was coming down to our pier to sunbath instead of staying at her house. Luckily for our family, if he’d given in to temptation, his vasectomy would have saved us from financial peril.
The second time I heard about it was in the Kanye West song “Golddigger.” Didn’t think much of it, though, just that the young girls liked to dance and have fun to it.
The third time was years later when my ex-girlfriend told me she was pregnant and my lawyer told me to offer her $25,000 to have an abortion. I became very familiar with the law at that point. My wife seethes every time that ex takes a European vacation with my money while we get to go to Florida.