Scott Galloway just said the quiet part out loud at The 92nd Street Y: Marriage is now a luxury good. 80% of top earners get married. Only 1 in 5 bottom-quintile men ever do. Historically? 80% of women reproduced… only 40% of men. Left alone, we get “Porsche polygamy” — a few winners take most of the mates, the rest get nothing. That recipe creates volatile, angry young men, and we’re overproducing them. We’re actively making it worse: pumping money from young to old while young men get judged ruthlessly on their ability to provide. Under-40s are 24% poorer than a generation ago. Boomers? 72% richer. This isn’t just a dating problem. It’s breaking household formation, robbing men of purpose, and quietly making society more unstable. I’ve felt echoes of this pressure in my own life — watching how economic headwinds make building anything lasting feel harder than it should. The data is loud if we’re willing to listen.Scott Galloway just said the quiet part out loud at The 92nd Street Y:
— Camus (@newstart_2024) May 6, 2026
Marriage is now a luxury good.
80% of top earners get married.
Only 1 in 5 bottom-quintile men ever do.
Historically? 80% of women reproduced… only 40% of men. Left alone, we get “Porsche polygamy” — a few… pic.twitter.com/Niwh5S5vCS
What’s your take — do you see this growing divide in marriage and opportunity playing out in your circle, and what do you think we should actually do about it?
