Oddbean new post about login | logout Great offer though
An offer the majority of women apparently find easy to resist. Either being married needs to become a better offer or being unmarried needs to become a worse one.
The later happens too late these days. It was much worse much earlier not too long ago.
Yes, but our society is now designed to cater to unmarried women and marginalize married ones, and the trend seems to steadily intensify.
Until fiat currency collapses, that will continue. It has to. Strong families are anathema to big control measures. Strong families require strong bonds, for which strong men will die to defend. You cannot have that if you wish to control everything about everyone.
I used to think this, but I've been waiting for the currency to collapse since 1997. 😂 https://c.tenor.com/22AGfxpFxQoAAAAC/tenor.gif
It will happen. Fiat always does. 🫂❤️
Yes, but will it happen early enough to prevent the population from hitting the demographic point of no return? Do we really want to just wait around and see?
I'm not. I'm going to build myself a slice of heaven and pass it on to someone who will keep building street in gone. At that point, unless a whole battalion of troops show up with all the goodies, or a mesh-networked killbot drone squad shows up, the rest of the world can be ignored and it will be hard, but vastly better.
I read somewhere that one time in human history the population shrank to 1200 people. And yet, here we are ...
It's temporary. An artifact of increased security in societies. Men and women will rediscover marriage and children as beneficial beyond the historical reasons.
As increased physical security is largely an artifact of the population aging and the men becoming correspondingly docile and losing virility, I doubt this will change. Unless we increase mass-immigration to even-higher levels.
