I am referencing the research in the Atlantic article. http://www.nber.org/papers/w23173

A potential contributor to both phenomena is the declining labor-market opportunities faced by males, which make them less valuable as marital partners. .... Trade shocks to manufacturing industries have differentially negative impacts on the labor market prospects of men and degrade their marriage-market value along multiple dimensions....

The author is showing what we have said all along. That women are out for the money. They get married for the money. That's not being critical of women, it's not attacking women, it's just the reality.

She doesn't think he's special, she's not into him, he's not the sole mate, he's a meal ticket for her and her children. That's where we are at in 2017.

They will never admit this. In fact they would probably vigorously deny it. But all the research shows this is the fact.

It's not just Western women. Asian women are the same. I suspect Eastern women are also the same.

The bottom line is, it's about the money. Without the money, or source of income, no guy has chance.

But there's a problem. in the Western countries they're facing a severe job shortage problem. Especially in young guys without trade skills. It's also a big problem in America and probably other Western countries for guys over 50 years old, with a limited range of white-collar experience.

That's a pretty large group of people. If you automatically rule them out, because of financial inadequacies, the pool becomes very small.

At some point the guys with good jobs will figure this out. They will pick only 10's. Why should I settle for less?

That leaves a large group of women who are searching for Mr. right ( good income) or a good man ( who has a good job) for a small and getting smaller pool of men.

It's going to be interesting. this is a very interesting social experiment that's going on right now. I certainly wouldn't want to be a young woman. In fact all unmarried women are at risk of poverty and severe poverty for single moms.

I don't think they understand the dire situation.

Then again if I have a good job, why do I want to marry a young Western woman, who's had many guys before me? Why do I want to take that risk?

So now, when you take the available number of men, subtract out those who do not have good jobs, subtract those who do not have a job, subtract MGTOW, and you have a very small pool.