I agree, it’s a ridiculous comparison. A professional chef does a little bit more than making beef stroganoff with Hamburger Helper or pouring canned soup into a saucepan and heating it up. (Not that I mind getting this at home.)
The rest of the comparisons are off kilter as well. Comparing driving a kid to soccer practice in a minivan is not equivalent to a chauffeur driving around in a limousine.
If you're the bread winner, and your spouse is a homemaker, you should mind getting that home. It shouldn't be happening unless you really, really like Hamburger Helper.
I'm starting to question two things in this thread:
1)Why am I the only one who realized that these numbers weren't meant to be taken seriously, as though the author expected breadwinner to fork over $100K?
2)What kind of screwed up families have all of you seen where families with full time homemakers live just like families with two working spouses? When mom and dad both work, you eat hamburger helper, cold cereal for breakfast, and chores go undone for days. That doesn't happen when someone makes it their job to stay at home and take care of the family.
In those families, breakfast is cookedevery morning. The chores are caught up, every day. Dinner prep starts in the early afternoon and the family sits down to nice home cooked meal every night, unless they go out to eat. It's a job. If someone is a homemaker and not doing it that way, time for them to pack it up and find a job where they can be productive.