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The chinese society has undergone tremendous changes over a few decades.
Arrangements that may have seemed a matter of course are no longer taken for granted, including, for instance, the practice of husbands handing over every penny they earn to their trusty wives.
Hello, I'm Lai Ming, and this is roundtable.
In this part of our discussion, new Holling and Brendan Yates will debate a financial arrangement that has become more and more popular in chinese families.
The 50 50 split.
Or as Brandon calls it, the dutch couples or the dutch family.
Right.
So what was the.
This certainly is my term, the 50 50 couple.
What does it mean?
Well, actually, I think you've made a good point by calling it a 50 50 couple, because the gist of this way of living together is that we split the.
The bill, the family bill, and then we each pay for the things that we want as an individual.
So the idea is that, for example, in.
Well, there are actually different ways to practice it.
We have a relatively good example that I have here and one that I will criticize a bit later.
Let's talk about the good example first.