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When a culture and economy are in general decline, lots of equations indoctrinated into kids along the lines of "do ABC, get XYZ" will be broken, and the smart kids will feel ripped off and at the same time have the agency, time preference, and logical thinking skills to achieve XYZ anyway, just perhaps while bending the rules.

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The most dangerous one being when educated, middle class young men can't find wives or a middle class income. Then revolutionary forces start to brew.

Memes and waifus may be working towards making that particular reaction less potent in developed countries.

on the contrary, the rage surrounding the opposite sex is a core element of the alt right's platform. couching discontent via memes is still expressing it.

Will be interesting to see what will happen in China, where (due to selective abortion during the one-child policy, and more independent women that don't feel obliged to marry) there'll be tens of millions of young men that won't be able to find a wive (estimates are 160 men for 100 women that want to marry).

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