Never to return

The loneliness epidemic is partially being fed by the MGTOW movement which seems to be picking up steam. With the power dynamics between men and women having shifted dramatically, hypergamy has helped to feed the phenomenon of more people than ever being single. This is certainly most true in the West.

The institution of marriage is seriously in doubt among GenZ who may have seen the 50% success rate of their parents and decided the risk may not be worth it. Not to mention that they don't have the financial clout to readily enter such an arrangement when their career prospects are worse than when we were their age.

Women no longer depend on men for financial reasons and thus what is left is a game of attraction where hookup culture tends to dominate. Long gone is the era where a man would almost purchase his bride from her father and proceed to own her as if she were an object. Today the scales may have tipped and men are seeing the prospect of divorce and alimony payments as more than a distinct possibility. Women having the power to choose are sometimes opting for bad boy types who have their pick and who won't easily settle down.

All this to say that the dating and marriage world which existed when I was in my 20's is long gone and likely never to return.