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Perseus wrote

Women also use fashion and group praise to choose the successful males for them. They don’t find a diamond in the rough male and help him become full diamonds, but wait for one to perfect himself, and then grant him a reward for his success. So women actually like to be a trophy wife (but not admit it), and it is not men who want go for a trophy wife only.  By jumping on the bandwagon she shows no loyalty, no wise foresight, and no mind of her own in following fashion in choosing a male that others have said is special with fame or wealth.

Yes, this is an important point. Most women want a full diamond, instead of helping a half diamond grow. This is very anti-civilization as higher education, advanced internships take time before a man can become independent at a superior level. Without knowing the details precisely, I would assume, that before, a meritocracy counteracted this tendency somewhat.

But now every tom dick and harry (and sally, jane and mary) goes to college. People spend a third of their lives in socialized institution that are anything but meritocracies (and that is followed by 'progressive' taxes). Under such conditions, a fledgling engineering/computer science/non-useless non-politicized major student has nothing going for him. Indeed hes a net negative spending his time studying compared to arts students who can afford to party the time away.