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I’m not sure everything stems from this. Marriage was not just for the wealthy and nobles in the Middle Ages, or in the 1800s or in subsaharan Africa, etc. If it’s a matter of relative wealth disparity, there have been plenty of eras (probably the majority of recorded human history) in which the kings and nobles had a similar wealth gap to their poorest married subjects as we see today between the 1% and the 99%. I’m…
You can’t survive or support a family with a single income these days.. It’s required for both partners to work.
America is moving the other way because all the wealth and power has been sucked up by the 0.1% and a large majority are too tired, stressed, and poor. Everything stems from this. Too much wealth tied up in the health insurance scam to switch to single payer, so people stay bound to their employment, and they can't afford time off or visits to the doctor because nothing is completely covered anymore. Too much wealth…
And how do you explain how very poor countries where the top 1% have wealth comparable to wealthy American peers and 99% of the country has less income American middle class had 100 years ago and they have no problems with marriages?
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They are choosing to further enrich themselves past what any single person can consume, instead of helping those around them, the definition of selfishness.
You could get the same distribution if everyone is assigned a random amount of selfishness regardless of wealth, but some people are better at achieving their selfish goals than others, or just luckier. How could someone know that the result is primarily due to non-uniform selfishness? You could measure selfishness in small experimental scenarios and try to correlate it with the wealth of the subjects. Does that evid…
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> Few have the combination of intellectual integrity and social obliviousness to publicly ignore that these socioeconomic factors likely have common causes among them, including lower intelligence, poorer impulse control, tendency towards violence and aggression, lower empathy, etc. OK, assuming for a moment these are true. What solutions do you offer? Because if this is the conclusion, i.e. the fault is inherent to…
We've done more than enough. We've put them ahead of ourselves financially, socially, even legally. We've thrown ourselves into a spiral of self-loathing and despair because of their problems. Incalculable sums of money, time, and other resources have been burned by well-meaning Whites all around the world trying to elevate those of darker complexion. It's all been futile.
And so the problem that I see, from my unashamedly White perspective, is that we are suffering for their failures. The solution I offer to that problem is simple: stop. At this point, only the most anti-White prick could possibly find a way to blame us for giving up.
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nice excuse for not being able to maintain relationships. Going by your logic, maintaining one in poorer countries should be impossible
Being an average person in a poor country is very different from being poor in a rich country.
the problem in "rich countries" is that affordable places to live are missing. so being poor without government support to pay for a home causes you to be homeless.
I think men marry in the hope of binding their partner; fat chance. Marriage gives the partner a claim on a big chunk of the man's assets, so it incentivizes women to divorce their husbands. The great majority of divorces are initiated by the wife. I'm not sure why women marry; I'm not a woman, but maybe the reason is the same.
Marriage is an outdated custom. People should learn how to live together without submitting to these ancient legal customs.
Source: I'm twice married, and twice divorced; both partnerships lasted 15+ years. I'll never marry again.
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They are choosing to further enrich themselves past what any single person can consume, instead of helping those around them, the definition of selfishness.
You could get the same distribution if everyone is assigned a random amount of selfishness regardless of wealth, but some people are better at achieving their selfish goals than others, or just luckier. How could someone know that the result is primarily due to non-uniform selfishness? You could measure selfishness in small experimental scenarios and try to correlate it with the wealth of the subjects. Does that evid…
I find this attitude applies to everything people don't want to hear. Anything that requires real change, effort, and difficulty seems to be met with anger and attack. It's so much easier to follow the accepted easy road of ignorance.
> "I'm not prioritizing one. I'm just recognizing the data and the evidence and the reality."
Good luck with that. People don't want data and evidence, they want to give their kids iPads at age 1 so they themselves can "have it all", they want to leave relationships the moment they realise compromise means not getting everything you want, they want to down pills to combat symptoms instead of working on where those symptoms are coming from.
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> I’m not defending wealth disparity; simply suggesting there’s likely another cause for the marriage-rate collapse. In the past that you're talking about, women were not allowed to be independent, i.e., own property or obtain jobs that could support a family. So women had little choice but to get married. As long as non-marriage is a realistic choice for women, the marriage rates will never be as high as they were w…
>> In the past that you're talking about, women were not allowed to be independent, i.e., own property or obtain jobs that could support a family. That is maybe half true or not true at all. Women could own property and could be somewhat independent. Queen Elisabeth owned a whole country in the 16th century. In general not only women but men as well had a duty to their families and had to do what their parents demand…