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Do You Really Believe CEOs Work 380 Times Harder Than Their Average Worker? (Video)

March 10, 2013 By Deanna Ogle 21 Comments

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As it turns out, there’s a huge difference between our perception of the wealth inequality in America and reality.

Filed Under: Bits & Pieces Tagged With: CEO's, ideal, income, lower-class, middle class, money, perception, poverty, reality, rich, the 99%, The Top 1%, upper-class, wealth, wealth distribution, wealthy, worker

Show Me the Money

February 28, 2013 By Andy Bodle 12 Comments

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Andy Bodle believes he’s uncovered the real cause of the gender pay gap.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Money, The Good Life, Womanology Tagged With: 50 shades of grey, aggression, anthropology, asking for raises, David Buss, evolutionary psychology, feminists, financial prospects, gender pay gap, heterosexuality, income, infidelity, Jennifer Connelly, Matt Ridley, men's earnings, money, Motivation, negotiating pay raises, pay equity, powerful women, status, success, testosterone, The Red Queen, UK statistics, University of Texas, US statistics, wage gap, wages, wealth, what men want, what women want

Beats the Alternative

September 4, 2012 By Carl Pettit 2 Comments

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What makes it so hard to be old?

Filed Under: Men Over 50, Politics, Root Down, The Good Life Tagged With: aging, elderly, fiction, health, Health Care, income, isolation, lifestyle, loneliness, male loneliness, Medicare, money, new york city, old men, regret, senior citizens, U.S. presidential election, voting

Writing Outside the (Idiot) Box

August 31, 2012 By Greg White 8 Comments

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Dream of churning out laughs for the Hollywood machine? Do it from home, counsels Greg White, who finds freedom writing for anything but TV.

Filed Under: A&E, Media Men, The Good Life Tagged With: A Confederacy of Dunces, advertising, advice, agents, American culture, Angry Birds, anxiety, assignment, blogging, celebrity, characters, creative writing, credits, culottes, Faye Dunaway, formula, Full House, Gap, hollywood, humor, IMDB, income, Jobs, Jokes, journalism, Mad Men, Madison Avenue, money, Motivation, online sitcom, Planet of the Apes, Recession, residual checks, Roseanne, schedule, Skype, society, television shows, television writers, thrill, Tippi Hedren, TV networks, unemployment, WGA, Writer's Guild, writers, writing, writing for TV, Yale Drama School

Win Gold at the Olympics and Pay Taxes Like Everyone Else

August 2, 2012 By John Dwyer 5 Comments

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The ATR claims Olympians pay the IRS $9,000 for their gold medals but John Dwyer checks their math.

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What’s a Man To Do? New Work for 2012 and Beyond

July 20, 2012 By Jed Diamond Ph.D Leave a Comment

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Find the new good life.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Quarter-Life Crisis, Work/Life Balance Tagged With: 2002, Accountability, adventure, American Dream, BALLE, Baskin-Robbins, Bernard Madoff, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, change, changing the world, civilization, clan, commitment, common good, Community, Cornell, Daniel Quinn, Duke University, earth, economy, education, employment, environment, family, green economy, health, home, income, inheritance, intuition, Investment, job training, John Robbins, Juliet Schor, leisure, masculinity, men's groups, neighborhood, Network, networking, new good life, old good life, overwork, pioneer, quarter-life crisis, Recession, relationships, safety, SAIC, social innovation, Social Security, souls, success, support groups, teacher, The Good Life, tribal, troop, unemployment, village, volunteer, Willits Healthy Action Team, Work, work/life balance

Does ‘Daddy Leave’ Lead to Gender Equality?

July 11, 2012 By Margunn Bjørnholt 10 Comments

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Norway’s parental leave policies, though popular, have unintended and adverse effects on families.

Filed Under: Families, The Good Life, Work/Life Balance Tagged With: class, Families, fathers, Gender equality, income, maternity, maternity leave, mothers, Norway, parental leave, paternity, paternity leave, quotas, The Good Life, wages, Work, work/life balance

Strange Freedom

June 28, 2012 By Rick Belden 11 Comments

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In quitting a job, Rick Belden finds a strange new sensation: freedom.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Freedom, The Good Life, Work/Life Balance Tagged With: creativity, damage, employment, financial, Freedom, health, income, living, mental health, money, poetry, psychic, spiritual, stability, The Good Life, Work, work/life balance, writing

A Guy Named Ray: When Does Income Become Obscene?

April 6, 2012 By Tom Matlack 21 Comments

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Tom Matlack makes the case for an upper limit on income.

Filed Under: Good Is Good Tagged With: Adam Smith, Bridgewater Associates, capitalism, Class Warfare, executive compensation, Hedge Funds, income, Investment, James Simons, mark zuckerberg, money, Occupy Wall Street, Ray Dalio, Steve Jobs, Tom Matlack

The Keys To Stay At Home Dad Success

August 17, 2011 By Jeff Jackson 6 Comments

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There are a ton of good reasons to be a stay at home parent. Here’s how to do it well.

Filed Under: Best of the Rest, dadsgood, DadsGood Featured Content Tagged With: careers, children, family, fatherhood, income, Jobs, parenting, SAHD, stay-at-home dad

Stop Coddling Billionaires! (says Warren Buffett)

August 15, 2011 By Tom Matlack 27 Comments

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I have an even crazier solution: blow up the IRS and the IRS code and impose a simple flat tax of 25% of all income–poor, rich, even corporations.

Filed Under: Good Is Good Tagged With: Billionaires, deficit problem, economics, income, IRS, NYTimes, taxes, Warren Buffet

The Great Glass Escalator

June 24, 2011 By ozyfrantz 15 Comments

(Much of the material for this post comes from David J. Maume Jr.’s 1999 work “Glass Ceilings and Glass Escalators,” because that’s the one in my Work Organization textbook. More recent citations gratefully accepted.) According to analysis of the PSID (Panel Study of Income Dynamics), a longitudinal study of a representative sample of American families, between 1989 and 1999, [...]

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Who Cares About Men’s Rights?

June 17, 2011 By ozyfrantz 100 Comments

Trigger warning for mentions of suicide, domestic abuse, and rape. I do. I care about every boy that was ever called a fag or a pussy or a sissy for being emotional, or sensitive, or unathletic, or just not manly enough. I care about the boys who are afraid they’ll lose their manhood if they admit they [...]

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Is There an Ideal Age to Become a Father?

March 26, 2011 By Hamilton Cain 22 Comments

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Hamilton Cain analyzes salaries and fertility rates to figure out the best time to start a family.

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Filed Under: Best of Families, Best of Health, Families, Featured Content Tagged With: age, children, family, fatherhood, fertility, income, Offspring, role of a father

Study of the Day: Political Disagreement and Income Inequality Are Friends

November 1, 2010 By Ryan O'Hanlon Leave a Comment

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We finally discovered why Republicans and Democrats hate each other. It’s because the rent actually is too damn high.

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