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You left out the sentence before that: Marriage stops the "natural" dynamic by tying every male to a maximum of one female That guy must be kidding, right? Mo
by finid 10y ago
You left out the sentence before that:
Marriage stops the "natural" dynamic by tying every male to a maximum of one female
That guy must be kidding, right? Monogamy is one thing, but what about other forms of marriage that involves more than one man and one woman?
But the rest of the sentence that you quoted is even worse, but so that it makes more sentence, I'll quote the entire sentence:
In earlier societies where marriage did not exist, the most dominant males had children with many women, and the males at the bottom of the hierarchy did not get to procreate at all.
But in most societies around the world, the poor tend to have more kids. Who is the author of that article?
He's:
a 33 year old semi-retired entrepreneur (I co-founded the Swedish marketplace Fyndiq where I was CTO for the first six years). Nowadays I spend my days mostly reading, writing and photographing stuff.
And making up crazy ideas about society.
- misja111 10y ago> But in most societies around the world, the poor tend to have more kids. That might be true for women but not for men. And the author is talking about men.
- stuaxo 10y agoI very much doubt that most of the extra children these women are having are all sired by rich fathers, as opposed to men in their own social group.
- misja111 10y agoThere's plenty of statistical evidence for a positive correlation between income and offspring for men, e.g. http://iussp2009.princeton.edu/papers/91467 http://iussp2009.princeton.edu/papers/91467
- mcguire 10y agoQuick question: what proportion of modern humanity is a descendant of Gengis Kahn?
- Mz 10y agoDivorcing a man with a good income and getting custody of the kids is a good way to wind up poor. Poverty in the US tends to be dominated by women and their children. Most poor women were solidly middle class until they ended up pregnant, divorced or widowed. Men who make good money generally have no trouble remarrying and having more kids with another woman if they want it. Stats I have seen suggest that women are more likely than men to have kids, men who do procreate are more likely to do so with more than one partner. Iirc: about half of all men reproduce, about 80% of all women do. You can infer from that stat right there that men who do father kids have decent odds of fathering them on more than one woman.
- finid 10y agoIt's actually truer for men, especially in cultures where polygamy is legal.