I’m all for good life hacks, but this one’s just a little bit silly for me. If I’m understanding your math, “This cost me $20, so a total cost per shirt of about $23.”, you paid 69 dollars for three plain white t-shirts. $70 buys a lot of women’s t-shirts that wear too fast.

...it still looks like a man’s shirt. If you like it, cool, but it’s not a look I’d like for myself.

Nah. This is a bad take.

snake oil much?

Simple? Not hardly.

What if you use a prepaid credit card on it? If you have a $100 budget for uber, put that amount on a card and have that card linked to uber.

I don’t pretend to know more than the author or the Economic Policy Institute, but I listened to an episode of the Freakonomics podcast where the guest was Claudia Goldin, an expert on gender economic at Harvard, who claimed that pretty much it doesn’t exist if you account for a bunch of factors. A lot comes down to…

they’re telling us that it doesn’t exist at all.

You really do have to be very careful with any conclusions based on observational study. Statistical data cannot show causation, which most people are aware of, but most people do not seem to take that concept as seriously as they should. Correlation can form a basis for a hypothesis, but, most certainly, not a…

“race and ethnicity, education, experience, and location”

I mean, the thing is that this is an issue where there are legitimate disagreements about methodology and conclusions. It’s very hard to do sound social science on these topics. Reasonable people can reasonably disagree about the size and sources of the wage gap. But as soon as you accuse anyone who thinks the gap is…

I’m so glad I read this article. It almost feels like an immediate answer to a comment thread I’ve been embroiled within. I’ll start out by saying my family didn’t have much money when I was growing up but we could make ends meet (both my parents working; I was the eldest and a ‘latch-key kid who took care of my…

You obviously do not live anywhere near NYC. You suggest that they live further away from NYC where they can have a $2K/month mortgage. For them to live there they need to have 2 cars plus around $600/month commuting costs. even if only one parents works they need two cars so that the working parent can commute to…

Your other points are fine but the idea that one parent staying at home would save them any money is insane when childcare costs literally 1/5 of that parent’s earning power. No logical gymnastics can salvage that line of reasoning.

Yes, it’s a choice. I choose to live in NYC. Nevermind that nobody in my family has lived anywhere but NYC for 170 years. Nevermind that there is literally noplace else on Earth where my job exists except for NYC, and that if I were to move outside of commuting distance I’d have to... I don’t know, go work in…

its a vicious cycle, because its not like you can get a job that pays the same in other places of the country.

That’s certainly your right, if you have the luxury of turning down job offers and still putting food on the table.

Essentially, HR people are reading from a script. I never understood the point of having them at all. They can’t answer ANY job-related questions, they can’t answer anything ABOUT the job for which you’re interviewing. All they can do is read from their HR script. I remember telling an HR person who spelled out “do…

But you have to invite him because he’s Jon’s brother, and only in town for a few days. Plus Jon’s awesome.

I think the only true comparison we can make here is that both iPhones and health care are grossly overpriced.