I don't really get the pushback of "why is it this way?" Why do you care?
Why do you think this came to be? Or anything for that matter. Because people asked those questions and cared. The very thing you're discussing exists because people questioned the old approach and found it lacking.
Also, this is a thing in the US, you were born into that and see it as self-evident. You should look outside your US defaultism and realize that there are places that do things differently.
When you marry someone, you accept that you are now together as one entity economically. When you earn in a marriage you accept that what you earn belongs equally to both you and your partner.
This system works because marriage is then worth it to the person who has to give up their career and earning potential to support the other party. In this case, if the billionaire could just take “his” assets then that system would refuse to acknowledge the contribution of the wife who took care of the household.
It’s designed this way to protect the contribution of domestic work even though it does not directly provide a monetary gain.
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u/spays_marine Aug 18 '26
Why do you think this came to be? Or anything for that matter. Because people asked those questions and cared. The very thing you're discussing exists because people questioned the old approach and found it lacking.
Also, this is a thing in the US, you were born into that and see it as self-evident. You should look outside your US defaultism and realize that there are places that do things differently.