The data are clear: The boys are not all right
My observation is that we are going to have a radical rebalancing of who reproduces and who doesn’t.<p>Lot of men and women who are generally not too motivated to seek out a companion, lose weight, put in the work to make it happen just…won’t pass on genetics.<p>Children are a lot of work and energy.<p>I’m highly introverted and high earning. My wife was the aggressor in my case. She pretty much made it all happen.<p>I think the ball is firmly in the woman’s court now. Women have most of the advantages (education, societal promotion, fit in better with our institutions) yet i see so many women who are generally apathetic about getting into a relationship at all.<p>There is also a massive obesity problem. If people have trouble getting attracted to each other versus the alternatives, makes it really challenging to find the motivation.<p>I wonder what all these effects will have over the next 200 years? If you play out the changing “relationship market conditions,” it seems like men and women with different personalities and dispositions towards seeking out relationships in order to reproduce will have a significant effect on the species.<p>Will people who were genetically predisposed towards being thin, hard working, open minded to approaching members of opposite sex and forming deep attachments resulting in children become more frequent?<p>On a genetic and evolutionary perspective I’m super interested - we know that IQ has been rising, but what else will change?<p>In some societies such as Korea I am told, women are sometimes or more frequently the aggressor. I wonder if this becomes more common.