@doggel @amerika @eastreed
"If men can have multiple wives, you get Africa:
Get multiple wives > not enough women for everyone > nearby men go to war to take your wives > the survivor lives in abject poverty since maintaining society requires larges amounts of work and the survivor is too busy maintaining multiple wives > have kids that will kill each other to repeat the cycle"
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That is not what happened on sister wives TV show
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You can have more women born then men through sperm centrifuge
Men can not afford multiple wives unless they have a lot of wealth
It takes a lot of time to get a lot of wealth
This creates a age gap
The number of women 18 or older is smaller than the number of men 18 years + number of years to acquire wealth and older
If you believe in probability then
Additionally with modern technology you can change the probability that a child of one gender or another is born by centrifuging the sperm
& lazy men should not reproduce
@shortstories @amerika @eastreed
And that's precisely why family, church and laws encourages men and women to marry as early as possible or sometines even arranging marriages since childhood, it was to prevent that age gap and to prevent the young men to be left without young, fertile women.
If laziness was 100% genetic, blacks would be the hardest working people ever due to the extreme conditions in africa and polygyny, what you see in the US however...
@shortstories @amerika @eastreed 1 The scale is way too small. A few men with multiple wives within a society of hundreds of millons that are still monogamous is not the same as a whole society being polygamous, it is like saying that communism totally works just because a father giving stuff for free to his wive and children haven't caused them starve to death
2 If that is true, yeah, that would work, polygyny works if there very few men and lots women