I second the point about assortative mating and that touches on how utterly horrible the modern dating scene has become (at least as far as I've been told). It's ironic that it's now a problem for men, since finding a spouse was one of the reasons parents started sending their daughters to college.

I'd love to see a study on that. I'm sure some have been done, but I don't remember coming across anything in my labor econ courses.

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Meta Econ Takeover Day 44

Brilliant -- agree with every part of this.  The assortative mating thing should have been its own bullet on my list, but it got smoothed into "social training".