> For educated and affluent people who are predisposed to make long-term commitments, grow up around married couples, and understand the benefits it confers to

> For educated and affluent people who are predisposed to make long-term commitments, grow up around married couples, and understand the benefits it confers to themselves and their children, they choose marriage. Many others got game theory’d out of it. > We have lost a lot of social cohesion. Defect is becoming the norm. So sexual freedom stopped “working.” Yikes. So much to unpack here. The author treats marriage as the “correct” decision as if it’s a fact, then claims upper class individuals are choosing this “correct” decision, and that a “loss of social cohesion” is caused by “others” (implied lower classes). Oh and alternatives to marriage aren’t “working” (whatever the hell that means, it seems the author doesn’t even know). This definitely feels like it was written by someone with a superiority complex who believes their opinions are fact. Getting married and having a family is not the right decision for everyone. Many people get married and have kids because of social norms and live miserable lives. Some people reject this norm and live happier lives alone. I don’t know why this is so difficult to accept. No one questions my preference for oat milk in my coffee, yet when it comes to my preference on marriage people start lecturing me on how “you just haven’t met the right person”. It’s the opposite. I’ve met plenty of right people, and I’ve realised that it just doesn’t work for me.