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Visa’s Vexing Vacillations
@visakanv
my general sense from my general reading/thinking is that the main reason people get married less is that they're wealthier marriage is fundamentally an economic institution I've been thinking a bit more lately too about church-as-a-social-institution
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Simon Kuestenmacher
@simongerman600
That's what social change looks like. In 2016 only half of the US population over 18 was married. Two years later this rate almost certainly fell below 50%. Reasons are delay of marriage as people stay in education longer and falling religiosity. Source: pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017
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@Triquetrea
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@visakanv
I think a key issue is that many of the wealth benefits of getting married have disappeared, or eroded, as a function of changing social norms. I.e. yes people often married for wealth historically, and in many times and places *only* for wealth, but now it's EXPENSIVE.
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Visa’s Vexing Vacillations
@visakanv
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oh yeah this is the more precise take. they're comparatively wealthier because the wealth-benefit of marriage has diminished and the wealth-cost of marriage has increased, probably even if we semi-ignore the smartphone variable
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