In this era, the marriage rate is super low and the divorce rate is super high. Grab a bunch of leftover men and women. Of course, because of the gender imbalance of marriageable people, there are far more leftover men than leftover women, and moreover, most of the leftover women are at the top of the food chain, and most of the leftover men are at the bottom of the food chain. However, people pay more attention to those leftover women in first-tier cities, who are either well-off or well-paid, or even use schadenfreude psychological ridicule: Look, can't marry out? In fact, where the conditions for women in this state to descend, it is a matter of minutes to marry out. However, they have a small calculation in their hearts: instead of getting along, it is better not to marry!
There is nothing wrong with it, and it is human instinct to seek advantages and avoid harm. As long as men are not short of money and are old, they can marry a wife and have a child for a lifetime. This is also the reason why mid-to-high-end men will not be left. Men who can be left are often forced, poor. Women can be left, mostly unwilling to give in.
The camera shifts to primitive society. In an era of extremely harsh natural conditions and lack of food, human beings work together and distribute the products of labor equally, so as to ensure that the members of the population do not starve to death and die less. Human beings work together, and men and women have a clear division of labor. Men and women have different attributes and will never play the same role in the social division of labor, whether it is early humans or future people. Men and women have their own advantages, and in any era, attempts to impose absolute equality between men and women are futile. Speaking of primitive societies, according to gender differences, men were responsible for hunting, and women were responsible for gathering and fertility. Because of the simplicity of the means of production, the hunting work responsible for men has little harvest, the gathering and fertility and parenting work responsible for women maintains the survival and development of the tribe, and the mother knows the father, in this era, women have the right to speak. In human history, women have held the right to speak for tens of thousands of years longer than men.
The productive forces have developed, the means of production have improved, and the surplus products have emerged. Men have become the main creators of social products because of their physical strengths. Men need clear offspring to inherit the surplus, and the leader of the male circles one or more beautiful women of childbearing age to have sex only with him. These women, who were forbidden to have multiple sexual partners, were given better living conditions than other women, and were pampered. Weighing the pros and cons, although she or they lost the sexual "entertainment" of free revelry, they got his promise of lifelong support, which was a good deal. Upward and downward imitation, the origin of marriage.
According to Marne's prediction, the future of human society will be an era of material abundance to the point of taking what is needed. Centuries of bourgeois rule have created more wealth than all past epochs combined. Expanding the Manne line of thought, the decades of scientist-led wealth have created more wealth than the entire era of bourgeois rule combined. Intellectual labor gradually replaced most manual labor. Women are not much different from men in terms of intellectual labor, women's economy is completely independent of men, men and women in material production and people's own production to exchange resources to achieve a balance of conditions broken, marriage has no meaning of existence, non-marriage dominates. The right to reproductive human beings is in the hands of women, who decide whether they want to have children, choose and who to give birth to. Another matriarchal era has arrived.
It should be noted that the difference between men and women is innate, and there is a social division of labor between men and women in any era, for example, the advantage of man's own production is always that of women, and the advantage of physical strength is always of men. The voice of men and women is determined by the conversion of their respective contributions into unified values. In primitive times, men's hunting contribution was less than that of women who gathered and raised offspring, and women had the right to speak. In the agricultural era, when the contribution of men in the field is greater than the contribution of women in fertility and parenting at home, men have a large voice. When both men and women can use high-tech button-operating tools to extinguish fires, catch thieves, and deter enemies, while women control human reproduction, women have a big voice.
When women control the future, society is flexible, harmonious and non-violent. Men's power concessions are also beneficial to men. Let me ask you, in the patriarchal era, men bear almost all the material production responsibilities from a country as small as a family, are they happy? It seems that men have lost control of reproduction. Females choose males to compete, and nature evolves to be the survival of the fittest. Healthy, quality genes are always prioritized, favoring humanity's own evolution over monogamous egalitarianism.