Growing, competitive societies solve reproductive pressure through arranged marriage, while wealthy overpopulated societies produce a dating game where marrying up becomes the path to status.
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Arranged Marriage
Growing, competitive societies solve reproductive pressure through arranged marriage, while wealthy overpopulated societies produce a dating game where marrying up becomes the path to status.
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"...children as possible. So what the solution here is to have arranged marriages. Arranged marriages. Where you know who cares who you marry just..."
"And the only way that you can change your status is by marrying up. And that's why you have a dating game. A dating..."
"...really weird psychology, but it's very, very true. That's also why arranged marriages work, okay? Throughout human society, a man, older man, is often..."
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Game theory begins with a small dating game and ends with a civilizational forecast: when status becomes the prize, love, fertility, policy, and geopolitics all bend around the same zero-sum structure.
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