[bayareapsycho]

I agree with the sentiment of this but I don't think the root issue is state involvement

The root issue is that the state is involved in the wrong way. It refuses to fund childcare, so marriage is economically incentivized.

But then it makes divorce super financially one-sided and easy to get, so now high earners will try to avoid marriage. But high earners are the ones who make marriage worthwhile, per the above point

Then it has LGBT acceptance in urban centers now, so there's an easy, convenient, and legally protected way for people to avoid the whole marriage pipeline

The only real fix we have for this is to just import more people, who knows whether that will pan out

In general though, I agree with the sentiment that for high earning men it's the shittiest deal imaginable and even the extreme option of dying alone is better