AKA the non-starter business model. In the unmarried pool, male and female strategies are incentive-incompatible. Both parties in that pool have unrealistic ex

AKA the non-starter business model. In the unmarried pool, male and female strategies are incentive-incompatible. Both parties in that pool have unrealistic expectations for what they are able to offer (not making normative judgments here), hence the difficulty in finding partners in the first place. Believe it or not, the culprit here, again, is wealth inequality.