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I'd never heard the term either. Since it's from The Economist, I thought it was a misspelling at first...after all they're always saying colour or favour or honour. But no, from Wikipedia - "Assortative mating is a nonrandom mating pattern in which individuals with similar genotypes and/or phenotypes mate with one another more frequently than what would be expected under a random mating pattern." I know, yawn. Assortative mating - Wikipedia, the free
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Essentially, like marries like, and according to The Economist - "Nowadays, successful men are more likely to marry successful women." Why is this a bad thing? Well - "assortative mating (the tendency of similar people to marry each other) aggravates inequality between households—two married lawyers are much richer than a single mother who stacks shelves." Assortative mating: Sex, brains and inequality | The Economist
It's those damn rich people again screwing everything up. Feminism won, women are more highly educated and taking better paying jobs, but instead of marrying dumb guys they're marrying in kind. Makes sense, unless you're a liberal and the idea of the unfairness of income inequality just buzzes your brain.
That concept is nothing new, and has nothing to do with 'sexual equality'.
Back in the 'olden days' women didn't necessarily work outside the home, but the wealthy men married the women from wealthy families.
Ditto 'rich'.
Ditto 'working class'.
Ditto 'poor'.
There's not much new under the sun, you know, at least when it comes to human behavior.
Of course there's nothing new about this, but you know full well the left is in a furor about income inequality and determined to use the government to correct what they percieve as any and all social injustices.
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Originally Posted by weltschmerz
The Economist is a British publication. Therefore, they're spelling it correctly. Educate yourself.
Ah jeez, 30 years of reading The Economist and it finally takes a Canuck to tell me where it's published (is Mark Steyn the only Canadian with a sense of humour?).
Of course there's nothing new about this, but you know full well the left is in a furor about income inequality and determined to use the government to correct what they percieve as any and all social injustices.
I thought the right was working on that problem; you know, denying abortions, making birth control harder to get, cutting education funding, etc., essentially moving women backward 50 or so years in order to recapture the 'good old days' of the Cleavers and Father Knows Best. No sexual equality then, by gum!
It seems some on the right are misinterpreting the phrase 'income inequality'. What does it mean to you?
If a company can afford to pay its middle and top tier people more money than they can possibly spend, but pay its lowest-paid workers so little that they must rely on welfare and/or food stamps to meet basic needs, well, that, to me, is income inequality.
I have a feeling that you would interpret that phrase differently.
Why marry someone who brings nothing to the relationship except their inability to earn a living?
Because people like that most likely have a lot of charm and sex appeal. They've spent their lives learning how to take from others and be desirable in the process. Beware the hormones, people! They'll steer you wrong!
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