There have been numerous articles citing a recent phenomenon, for example: Why Are Marriage Rates Down? Study Blames Lack Of ‘Economically-Attractive’ Men. To wit:
Researchers found that these estimated potential “dream” husbands had an average income about 58% higher than the actual unmarried men currently available to unmarried women. These synthetic husbands were also 30% more likely to be employed than real single men and 19% more likely to have a college degree.
Sure, he's a nice enough fellow, but he just doesn't bring home the bacon. What's a modern highly educated and highly paid hypergamous woman to do?
Ladies, if you've been looking for love in all the wrong places, you're in luck. Wages are high in the oil patch -- so high that the oil companies suck up all the young working age men. That's where the eligible men are.
Here's proof, if you need it. State Personal Income, Second Quarter 2019:
State personal income increased 5.4 percent at an annual rate in the second quarter of 2019, a deceleration from the 6.2 percent increase in the first quarter, according to estimates released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (table 1). The percent change in personal income across all states ranged from 7.5 percent in Texas to unchanged in North Dakota.
Professional, scientific, and technical services was the leading contributor to the earnings increase in Texas, the fastest growing state, as well as five other fast-growing states-- Washington, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon (table 3).
(Bold added.)
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3:16 PM 9/30/2019
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