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*'''Corruption''': Stagnation may lead to more ideological and material corruption allowing ideologies like [[feminism]] and [[environmentalism]] to flourish as there is a reduced overall need for an effective economy. | *'''Corruption''': Stagnation may lead to more ideological and material corruption allowing ideologies like [[feminism]] and [[environmentalism]] to flourish as there is a reduced overall need for an effective economy. | ||
*'''Pessimism''': A poor economic outlook and ecological crises like pollution, global warming and overpopulation make people less willing to have offspring, hence reluctant to date. | *'''Pessimism''': A poor economic outlook and ecological crises like pollution, global warming and overpopulation make people less willing to have offspring, hence reluctant to date. | ||
*'''Outsourcing and automation''': Outsourcing and automation cause a shift toward the service sector which has high cognitive requirements and pushes people into a slow life history speed, high achievement standards and long education. | |||
*'''Centralization''': Globalism, steep hierarchies, social comparison with a greater number of people leading to inability to secure high status and confidence etc. for an increasing number of men. Leading to stagnation in local economies, being superseded by global ones. | *'''Centralization''': Globalism, steep hierarchies, social comparison with a greater number of people leading to inability to secure high status and confidence etc. for an increasing number of men. Leading to stagnation in local economies, being superseded by global ones. | ||
*Similar points about centralization, economic stagnation and resulting competitiveness as causes of inceldom, late or no marriage and low birth rates have been raised by journalist Walter M. Gallichan in his 1915 book [[The Great Unmarried]]. Gallichan also lamented a negativity about marriage as well as declining relationship between the sexes expressing as misandry and misogyny. Significantly later marriages have been observed in economic crises in mid 17th century England where women saved up their virginity to attract high-earning men.<ref>https://journals.openedition.org/chs/737#bodyftn16</ref> Lower income makes men unattractive to women, especially when it is lower than women's (see [[hypergamy]]), and the increasing rate of millennials living with their parents makes signaling of status and independence and hence dating possibly harder for men. | *Similar points about centralization, economic stagnation and resulting competitiveness as causes of inceldom, late or no marriage and low birth rates have been raised by journalist Walter M. Gallichan in his 1915 book [[The Great Unmarried]]. Gallichan also lamented a negativity about marriage as well as declining relationship between the sexes expressing as misandry and misogyny. Significantly later marriages have been observed in economic crises in mid 17th century England where women saved up their virginity to attract high-earning men.<ref>https://journals.openedition.org/chs/737#bodyftn16</ref> Lower income makes men unattractive to women, especially when it is lower than women's (see [[hypergamy]]), and the increasing rate of millennials living with their parents makes signaling of status and independence and hence dating possibly harder for men. | ||