Oddbean new post about login | logout This is the data, but apparently statisticians project marriage rates to miraculously shoot up like a Joe Biden vote count at 3 a.m. https://m.primal.net/Hnje.jpg
They have to do that or the government would need to raise retirement contributions.
I don't follow the connection 🤔
Governments use marriage rate projections to calculate birth rates, and from there inflation and retirement costs.
Ah I see. I guess they still care about maintaining that illusion, even though contributing to government retirement schemes serves no purpose whatsoever.
