They’re delaying big milestones such as getting their driver’s licenses and going to college. And they’re living at home with their parents a lot longer.
Yes, because running a car, going in to higher education and buying your own home are far more expensive than what they used to be compared to decades ago. Meanwhile employers are finding ways to reduce labour costs by reducing hours of vacancies, implementing automation/self-service and bringing in cheaper labour from abroad to undercut wages.
You also have affirmative action and an education system geared towards girls and women that is giving them an advantage and with hypergamy at play, where women date across and up in terms of status, increasing numbers of women find the pool of single men unappealing.
You also have the issue that women are rejecting finding a partner and starting a family in favour of education and career while getting help from the state whilst family and community provide a safety net and she provides help for other women when she is not working, abolishing the notion of needing a man to protect and provide - one of the key factors of a partner. And also rejecting the notion of "settling" when she gets older. Which is why you see all the "where have all the good men gone" articles while also stating how much she refuses to settle and refuses to be in a dead bedroom relationship.
In general, people coming of age in an era of dating apps say the notion of starting a relationship with someone they meet in person... seems like a piece of nostalgia.
A lot of people have the false notion that when meeting people online, it is through dating apps and nothing else. From data I have seen, only a tenth of people who find a partner online do so via dating apps, most do via closed social groups on apps like WhatsApp and Discord or via social media, again predominately via social groups where they know the other people. Someone told me that the most successful dating app is not Tinder. It's Instagram.
If people are failing to find people, it's likely because they are socially isolated and don't have a closed social group where they meet other people who introduce them to say, a friend of a friend and then form a relationship that way. In the chart on that article, the majority of people still have at least one sexual partner in the last year. The concept of women riding the err... "carousel" and the high status men who facilitate it tends to be around the 10% figure from data I have seen.
Yes, because running a car, going in to higher education and buying your own home are far more expensive than what they used to be compared to decades ago. Meanwhile employers are finding ways to reduce labour costs by reducing hours of vacancies, implementing automation/self-service and bringing in cheaper labour from abroad to undercut wages.
You also have affirmative action and an education system geared towards girls and women that is giving them an advantage and with hypergamy at play, where women date across and up in terms of status, increasing numbers of women find the pool of single men unappealing.
You also have the issue that women are rejecting finding a partner and starting a family in favour of education and career while getting help from the state whilst family and community provide a safety net and she provides help for other women when she is not working, abolishing the notion of needing a man to protect and provide - one of the key factors of a partner. And also rejecting the notion of "settling" when she gets older. Which is why you see all the "where have all the good men gone" articles while also stating how much she refuses to settle and refuses to be in a dead bedroom relationship.
A lot of people have the false notion that when meeting people online, it is through dating apps and nothing else. From data I have seen, only a tenth of people who find a partner online do so via dating apps, most do via closed social groups on apps like WhatsApp and Discord or via social media, again predominately via social groups where they know the other people. Someone told me that the most successful dating app is not Tinder. It's Instagram.
If people are failing to find people, it's likely because they are socially isolated and don't have a closed social group where they meet other people who introduce them to say, a friend of a friend and then form a relationship that way. In the chart on that article, the majority of people still have at least one sexual partner in the last year. The concept of women riding the err... "carousel" and the high status men who facilitate it tends to be around the 10% figure from data I have seen.