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|On a list of 149 countries’ Gini indices provided by the CIA World Factbook, this would place the female dating economy as 75th most unequal (average—think Western Europe) and the male dating economy as the 8th most unequal (kleptocracy, apartheid, perpetual civil war—think South Africa.<ref>https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-the-dating-economy/</ref>}} | |On a list of 149 countries’ Gini indices provided by the CIA World Factbook, this would place the female dating economy as 75th most unequal (average—think Western Europe) and the male dating economy as the 8th most unequal (kleptocracy, apartheid, perpetual civil war—think South Africa.<ref>https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-the-dating-economy/</ref>}} | ||
== | == George Orwell on hypergamy == | ||
The famous English writer and socialist, George Orwell, poignantly wrote about male poverty and homelessness frequently being concomitant with inceldom, due to female hypergamy, in his famous novel about the underclass, Down and Out in Paris and London, in 1933: | The famous English writer and socialist, George Orwell, poignantly wrote about male poverty and homelessness frequently being concomitant with inceldom, due to female hypergamy, in his famous novel about the underclass, Down and Out in Paris and London, in 1933: | ||