I think what's happened to young men is a little concerning. If you talk to people 30 and under, you start to hear a consistent theme from guys, which is they don't really have the social skills to really talk to girls. It starts with them. And so what happens is they go to these different outlets. They go to video games, they communicate more online. As a result, they tend to have brittle or fragile emotional relationships and social relationships. They don't date the same way that they used to. And a lot of guys just feel like they also don't want to get caught into being perceived as, you know, post-modern to movement in any way shape or form. Being on the dork. You take all of these factors and you put it together and there's a lot of guys that have just opted out. And they just kind of move in a direction of parasocial relationships instead. Then I started to look at like the data on porn usage. It's out of control. I had no idea. Do you guys know what the average age now of a porn watching male is? It's scary to think. The average age? Yeah. When it'd be the average age of an American man or does it skew younger? I would assume skew younger. It's gone from 20, down to 16. There are more than 50% of 12-year-old boys now that watch porn. Oof. I was shocked. I was like, what are you even talking about? I was a teenager. Late teenager, I think when I like, I mean, we had like, you found a magazine here or there, whatever. Okay, got a girly magazine, yeah. But can you imagine what it does to a 12-year-old boy when they start to get instant gratification and you compound that all through high school. And they don't have, you know, what we would call game, right? The ability to just talk and just kind of like carry on a conversation. What do you think happens? And then you go into the dating pool, and what would these dating sites optimize for? These dating sites optimize to keep people there, not for you to find a relationship and for you to churn, right? So the gamification and the dynamics of those systems are where many young men and women now look to define relationships. So, you know, lonely young men, that creates lonely young women. A small cohort of eligible men and women that everybody's chasing and fighting over. Everybody else kind of left on the sideline. And so what do you think happens over 15 or 20 years of this activity? It's what you see in this data. People aren't coupling up. They're not having long-term committed relationships. So obviously, as a byproduct, they're not getting married more. Obviously, as a byproduct of that, then you're not combining two incomes together. You still with one income. At the same time, what's happened to the underlying things that people would look to as satisfying markers of progress in life? A home, a good education. Those are way out of reach. Right? So if you look at this chart, the price to income ratio of a home from 1980 to now has effectively made it so that you have to make an enormous amount of money as a single individual to afford a home today. And then if you only have a small percentage of people actually getting married and bringing two incomes together, you see what you're seeing today in that chart. I don't know. I think that this is a big problem and I think we need to start talking about it a lot more.
