A self-fulfilling spiral

Among the most numerous types of videos on YouTube are ones relating to mental health (anxiety, depression, loneliness) and romantic relationships which makes sense since these two areas make up a huge chunk of human preoccupation. Both issues have been front and center over the last number of years.

We are more lonely than ever as well entering into less relationships than at any point in our history. The transactional component of marriage now wiped away, there is less reason for women to embark if they have careers, money and no need of men to look after them. As a result many men have given up especially if they don't belong to the top 10% that women are chasing thanks to hypergamy.

By age 30 many women start to think biological clock and the ones who don't get one of the top tier men, have little choice but to lower often excessively exacting standards except that some of those lower rank men are now happy and more aware than ever about the perils of divorce. It's a self-fulfilling spiral which will only end when the entire rules of the game change. The reasoning and purpose for matrimony will need to be revamped.