The Divorce Colony (2015)

It would be interesting to read a charitable case for why divorce was prohibited . We see it written up as women being forbidden from owning land, or perhaps without a marriage, not being recognized as full people with the freedom to own it. It probably had some rational basis beyond cruelty and was likely about incentives, like reducing the reward for spouses to kill each other for inheritances. Maybe it was the epiphenomenal result of just not producing weak societies that get overrun by neighbouring ones that leveraged specialization and progress over short generations. If it were true that children are growth and wealth, we stop growing when we stop producing them, and simply die off.

Arguably, the incentives for marriage today are misaligned and probably socially bad, as rationally, the best prospective partner to marry is the one who will provide for the most advantageous divorce. The article is a quaint slice of life, but it overlooks the demographic reality underlying it.

Re: The Divorce Colony (2015)

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Post by bartread » Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 5:02 PM UTC

solardev wrote: post #3

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It's quite subtle in many ways but just wrong enough to fall into an uncanny valley that's incredibly, as you say, distracting.

Re: The Divorce Colony (2015)

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Post by solardev » Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 5:08 PM UTC

bartread wrote: post #6

solardev wrote: post #3

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It's quite subtle in many ways but just wrong enough to fall into an uncanny valley that's incredibly, as you say, distracting.

It's like that bad dream where I'm naked in school, being chased by a bunch of leaky typewriters. You ever get that?

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Post by dang » Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 5:19 PM UTC

topaz0 wrote: post #2

Note this came out in 2015, and was posted here at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10722467

Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The Divorce Colony - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10722467 - Dec 2015 (22 comments)

(year added above too)

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Post by dang » Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 5:19 PM UTC

solardev wrote: post #3

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"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: The Divorce Colony (2015)

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Post by dang » Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 5:20 PM UTC

pierat wrote: post #4

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Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar, or any flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys the curiosity that it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you about this before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817284. We eventually have to ban accounts that keep doing this and I don't want to ban you! so please don't do it.