Continued discourse from The Atlantic on the deficit in ‘marriage material’ in the US. As has been the case for a while…

Coupling is declining around the world, as women’s expectations rise and lower-income men’s fortunes fall; this combination is subverting the traditional role of straight marriage, in which men are seen as necessary for the economic insurance of their family.

This correlates to an abundance of research we’ve been discoursing related to American social isolation, which oftentimes grows alongside romantic isolation, and in the end, this eventually becomes a conversation about a widening class fissure since so many of the extremities in value perception correlate to social and financial wealth.