This is something I was thinking about. You may recall I made a thread earlier asking about whether it gets better after 30. The responses among most was that it does. It got me to thinking about the economics of the "courtship market."
Basically, our economy will continue to be depressed for quite some time. I think many of these changes are going to be permanent. It's not really anything that our leaders have done wrong. It is because of the rise of many countries that were previously not major players in the global economy such as China and India.
In the past, a huge chunk of wealth was concentrated in relatively few countries. But now, several developing nations are claiming for themselves a larger slice of the pie. The gravy train we've enjoyed in the Western world is coming to an end. It's going to be particularly bad near the bottom and that will disproportionately affect young people.
Gone are the days when you could graduate high school, get a job at a factory and be able to afford a very comfortable suburban life style on a single income. Nowadays, even a college degree doesn't mean a whole lot. This means that it will be much harder to establish oneself financially and thus it will take longer for most people to do so.
What this means is that it will take longer to accumulate wealth. You can't count on a good paycheck if you're working a relatively unskilled position. Wages are stagnating or going down and expenses are going up. Many folks will either have to take a longer time to climb up the ladder, or pursue longer training to secure higher paying jobs.
Because women have a much more limited window of fertility in comparison to men, they will increasingly look to mature men for LTRs; fewer young bucks will be able to provide them with the financial security they are looking for. As women approach 30, they will look to guys in their own age group and find that many of them simply can't give them the idyllic family life they envisioned. I think that will greatly increase the value of the mature man.
A lot of this might just be intellectual masturbation, but I thought it was an interesting thing to consider. Whatever happens, I think the economic dynamics of the world are undergoing some major changes and that will have implications in the "romance market" too.
Basically, our economy will continue to be depressed for quite some time. I think many of these changes are going to be permanent. It's not really anything that our leaders have done wrong. It is because of the rise of many countries that were previously not major players in the global economy such as China and India.
In the past, a huge chunk of wealth was concentrated in relatively few countries. But now, several developing nations are claiming for themselves a larger slice of the pie. The gravy train we've enjoyed in the Western world is coming to an end. It's going to be particularly bad near the bottom and that will disproportionately affect young people.
Gone are the days when you could graduate high school, get a job at a factory and be able to afford a very comfortable suburban life style on a single income. Nowadays, even a college degree doesn't mean a whole lot. This means that it will be much harder to establish oneself financially and thus it will take longer for most people to do so.
What this means is that it will take longer to accumulate wealth. You can't count on a good paycheck if you're working a relatively unskilled position. Wages are stagnating or going down and expenses are going up. Many folks will either have to take a longer time to climb up the ladder, or pursue longer training to secure higher paying jobs.
Because women have a much more limited window of fertility in comparison to men, they will increasingly look to mature men for LTRs; fewer young bucks will be able to provide them with the financial security they are looking for. As women approach 30, they will look to guys in their own age group and find that many of them simply can't give them the idyllic family life they envisioned. I think that will greatly increase the value of the mature man.
A lot of this might just be intellectual masturbation, but I thought it was an interesting thing to consider. Whatever happens, I think the economic dynamics of the world are undergoing some major changes and that will have implications in the "romance market" too.
