A mans ability to get a woman and have children with her is strongly dependent on his income and status. A womans ability to get a superior male for a mate is mostly dependent on her hip to waist ratio, and the roundness of her butt and boobs. I seems that nature in her infinite wisdom hard-wired us that way. Social conditioning cannot change this. Men will never permit too many women to get too much wealth and status at their expense. All the laws and rules, and bullshit about equality will never change it. This does not preclude highly ambitious and intelligent women from being CEO's. They will just never be a majority of CEO's. I have three daughters, one is a slacker who is cruising through life, one is a non-working mother of two, and the third has a managerial job, and she has been told that she could easily become CEO of her company with her abilities.

The daughter who is a young mother has a college degree and was successful in her career of a few years, but she has no interest in working while raising young children. She is very busy, however, in cooking all meals (they never eat out, unless we or other in-laws are visiting) and making and fixing things. They are all happy in their own ways.

Years ago I lived in an area of Boston known as Bay Village. It was very homosexual area, but I could walk to work, so it was convenient. My younger brother, who lived with us got hit on all the time when he walked home from his girlfriends. However, he never got raped. But, none of us would walk by the lesbian bar on Tremont Street nearby. In the summer the bull dykes and the femmes would hang out on the wide sidewalk in front. The femmes in general were pretty little things with skimpy dresses. The bull dykes wore a sort of uniform, Levis and motorcycle jackets, with stout chains through the epaulets. We all strongly believed that if we looked at a femme in any way that could be construed as interest, we would be quickly beaten with the chains. So we always crossed Tremont to pass by, even though it was about six lanes wide.

Anyway, even us macho guys have to be a little careful in certain areas at certain times.

In a non-gender sort of way, of course. Flying amounts to hours of boredom punctuated by moments of great terror. I'm an instrument rated private pilot with 1600 or so hours. Today getting a private license plus an IFR rating would cost at least $10,000. In 1964 I bought half a brand new Mooney M20E for about $10,000. Sharing ownership one or two others is common, or belonging to a flying club where a group owns several airplanes. Today a retractable a new high performance airplane costs at least $300,000. My old Mooney in good shape today would go for about $50,000. A good cross-country (140+ knot) airplane will burn 8-12 gallons of $4-5 fuel per hour. If I gave up most of my other interests I could still afford to fly, but I, and many others, will not do that. I think I did most of my flying during a Golden Age, when costs were reasonable, and the country was not on a constant terror alert.

A young unmarried guy or gal with an income of at least $60K could fly today, if they lived in a low-cost more rural area. But it takes a lot of commitment.

A couple of years ago I rented a Cessna 182 to fly my wife and me to Minnesota from Idaho for her HS reunion. It took about seven hours to do what is about an 1200 mile road trip. We were able to fly directly to the small airport in her hometown, and not have to go into a major city and rent a car. When we stopped for gas in Miles City we ate the sandwiches we had brought. Under the right conditions it sure beats driving or flying the airlines. Of course there is no security check and we could carry all sorts of stuff that the security people would not like. If I had another $20K a year I'd still be fling.

My wife soloed shortly after we got married, but never got her license, but she can fly the plane when I get tired of it. Of course that means she's not a pussy.

I watched O'Reilly frothing about George Soros the other night. I can't wait for tonight so I can hear what he has to say about Tenet. I can only take about 10 minutes of O'Reilly, but in that short time it's fun to watch a toadying sycophantic asshole at work. He is totally owned by Big Oil Texans and the Saudis.

Does anyone have any idea what sorts of jobs we are talking about? The greatest growth seems to be in fixing aging Americans. Lots of jobs as physicians assistants, physical therapists, etc. They add to the GNP, just like Katrina did, but fixing things (and people) is not an increase in wealth. It is actually a decrease. Automation and robotics are rapidly replacing all kinds of jobs, and maybe we won't need all those workers. If we could eliminate the cheap (and mostly illegal) labor employers would have the incentive to use capital instead. Now that would be an increase in real wealth.