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4th law of robotics

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5. Two things are going to have to change in our society
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 08:59 AM
Jul 2012

or else leave lot's of people miserable: women being unwilling to marry *beneath* them and men being unwilling to marry older women.

The fact that it takes time to be successful so rich people tend to be a bit older means that those with money are necessarily going to be older. If men are perfectly willing to marry down but women are not (and women are graduating college at greater rates) that necessarily will create a surplus of older women with no suitable mates under the current system.

Either that or we'll content ourselves to being a largely childless or single mother based society of very lonely people.

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