> The obvious solution is to send the top x% of men off to war How would that solve the problem? Wouldn't that simply move the top down? ;-) The real solution

> The obvious solution is to send the top x% of men off to war How would that solve the problem? Wouldn't that simply move the top down? ;-) The real solution is monogamous marriage, which prevents the top males from getting all the females, in effect rationing females for them (to at most one), so that there's more left for the others. Polygamy is usually perceived as being detrimental to women, but it could be argued that the whole point of making polygam illegal is to let men who don't belong to the top x%, find a mate. But in a modern society I'm not sure there's only one dimension against which to measure people's desirability (there are many different domains; the dater's job is to position themselves in a domain where they belong to the top). Regarding the relation between dating success and pickyness, Larry David says it best in that clip: https://youtu.be/ug02cqP69V4?t=125 https://youtu.be/ug02cqP69V4?t=125