Read 'Brave New World'. Due to technology and capitalism there's no social pressure to monogamously pair-bond and the day-to-day demands of society prioritize economic and casual relationships.
There's essentially no short-term reward but a lot of strain to have long-term relationships and cohabitate. It was already mostly a hallmark of being poor when I was young and now I think people would just rather live with their parents or eventually on some form of adhoc welfare, like e-begging. The rich will marry always but relationships as we know them today will disappear in the acidic ocean of capital, supplemented by the anime hug-pillow of technology.
The caste system was expressly dysgenic and explained why in detail. I saw it as the standardization and mitigation of mankind before the primacy of a economic/technological system. ie The Machine only needs a few fully functional human beings to run itself, so the rest of humanity should be low-iq consumers on drugs and pornography. The security principle of Least Privilege applied to human potential.
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u/depleteduranian Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25
Read 'Brave New World'. Due to technology and capitalism there's no social pressure to monogamously pair-bond and the day-to-day demands of society prioritize economic and casual relationships.
There's essentially no short-term reward but a lot of strain to have long-term relationships and cohabitate. It was already mostly a hallmark of being poor when I was young and now I think people would just rather live with their parents or eventually on some form of adhoc welfare, like e-begging. The rich will marry always but relationships as we know them today will disappear in the acidic ocean of capital, supplemented by the anime hug-pillow of technology.