Why people are not getting married anymore.

9 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "Why people are not getting married anymore." (created 2023-12-09) containing an excerpt of a single speaker (labelled SPEAKER A) delivering a monologue about societal shifts: dating becoming harder, declining marriage and childbirth rates, remote work, and reduced religiosity. The speaker argues these trends erode traditional social bonds (work, church, family) and raises the question of what should replace those consistent community structures.

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Outside of the working environment, people are longing for community because one, dating is getting harder, right? And people aren't getting married. People aren't— a lot of people aren't having kids, right? It could be anything. Work's going remote. Family formation is happening less often. People are becoming less religious. Those are the 3 most binding social commitments that pretty much all human civilization people had, right? It's like you went to work, saw the same people every day. You went to church, saw the same people every week. Went home, saw your family every day. So if we're losing all those things, like what do we replace it with? Because we do have to replace it with something. Like it's just, we're not built to be happy without some sort of consistent socializing with like-minded people.