tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post317715905829875980..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: A positive marriage/child ratio - index of ruling class decadenceBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-11970418145719284522013-06-18T17:11:13.520+01:002013-06-18T17:11:13.520+01:00@Foseti - The point is not differentials between h...@Foseti - The point is not differentials between high and lower class - but that high class (wealthy, educated, intelligent, conscientious) choose fertility on average significantly below 2 - especially the women.<br /><br />(So do the underclass, on average. The exceptions to sub-replacment fertility are the devout traditionally religious of whatever class.) <br /><br />Of course there is now a mix-up between marriage and long-ish term partners. <br /><br />But the phenomenon I was interested by is the severally married high status man with fewer children than wives, or none. By choice. <br /><br />There is a special interest about the behaviour of the highest status people, the elite leadership: they set the parameters for everyone else, and are where decadence shows-up with the least confounding. <br /><br />@JP - this *may* be so, although I am not convinced that we really know this, and either way the correlation is so weak as to be pretty worthless at the individual level. <br /><br />For example, when you meet a high status man, do you think it reasonable to assume that he is highly promiscuous? Or vice versa? I don't think so. <br /><br />Partly it depends on how status is defined - some definitions of status are circular with respect to sex.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-59850618392965317022013-06-18T16:48:25.913+01:002013-06-18T16:48:25.913+01:00It's worth pointing out that we have
de facto...It's worth pointing out that we have <br />de facto a (serial)polygamous culture,perhaps the most polygamous in human history,that is highly skewed towards high status males.JamesPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-28158726997884632812013-06-18T15:24:36.203+01:002013-06-18T15:24:36.203+01:00Focusing on the ruling class misses the point. Ch...Focusing on the ruling class misses the point. Charles Murray has shown that (in the US) the marriage/child ratio is much more likely to be high for the underclass than for the elite.<br /><br />A significant number of people on the alternative right seem to want to ignore this point - we do so at our peril.fosetihttp://foseti.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com