3/ note that in the traditional class system, the cross-class promotion was equally possible for both sexes (through heroic deeds or through heroic beauty).
also apologies for the somewhat glib, acerbic commentary - i'm somewhat new to this particular idea.
4/ keys to fixing marriage:
- societal support & enforcement
- align incentives for facilitators for few "attempts"
- be frank that not everybody is best off with a family; provide good alternative tracks through life.
we used to have the later one - clergy, science, etc.
5/ to expand on "align incentives for facilitators for few *attempts*"
note that online & offline dating platforms, venues, societal structures are geared to extract value from repeated finding dating partners
rather than from single, final coupling up. misaligned incentives.
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we've been there before, several times in fact. every single time humans turned out to be better at it. every time guns were removed from a fighter aircraft, they had to be re-introduced *ex post haste*.