Mating

The NYT's slander of the American legacy in their "1619" fantasy narrative is more understandable now. Fifty years of active government support and transfer of trillions of dollars to the Black community has made no one happy. Since intervention seemingly doesn't matter, it must be the result of an occult social genetics. This is the wonder of the education of the unready. And science forced upon the unprepared denizens of survey courses has a patron saint: Lysenko.

                                    
                                         Mating

Milanovic via Kling on assortive mating:

"I looked at the cohorts of young, first, American males, men between the ages of 20 and 35 in 1970. And I looked at people who were in the top wage group. They were as likely to marry another woman from a top wage group as to marry somebody from the bottom. So the ratio is one to one.

Well, nowadays, for males, it’s three to one. So, they are three times as likely to marry a woman who is also from the same top income group as a woman who is from the bottom. But, for women, it’s even more dramatic. The change is five to one. It used to be one to one and it’s now five to one.

On who attends top universities:

percentage of people who go to the top schools and where the parents come from, of course, you have–I think actually I mentioned that in my book; that’s not my own number; I actually took it from somebody else–is the ratio is 60 to 1 between the top 1% and the middle class.

But some of the more interesting discussion comes later in the podcast. Especially around minute 80 when they talk about how when many things can be outsourced the role of the family changes, and this reduces family formation."

Outsourcing the family.