I’ve made a million dollars in appreciation on my home in the last 15 years.

Are you telling me just because I own one home, that I’m not part of the problem?

That’s observablt false. Capitalism has lead to a massive improvement in living conditions for countries that have implemented it

Yes it also has downsides, but pretending it doesn’t do anything good is rediculous.

The billionaire fortunes pale in comparison to the trillions of dollars of unearned appreciation owned by regular home owners.

It’s the unearned part that matters most, at least capital investment has some benefit to the economy. Real estate appreciation adds literally zero value to the economy.

You’re slightly right, but not really. Polygamy has always been a niche thing, but the groups that practice them are usually in small geographic areas with each other rather than spread out in society.

This concentration and imbalance is why Fundamental Mormons for example expel so many young men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_boys_(Mormon_fundamentalism)

The thing a lot of people fail to understand about many technologies is that they don’t always eliminate ALL of something.

The internet didn’t eliminate all of almost any job, but it significantly reduced the number of people working in many jobs.

Significant impacts reductions have been felt in:

• Mail delivery
• Retail workers
• Newspapers
• Landline Telephone Services
• Photograph printing
• Encyclopedias
• Movie theaters
• Video Game Arcades

and more

First, the simple answer is religion, Christianity (the primary religion of the west) mostly rejected the idea in the middle ages which means that culturally most of the west grew up seeing it only as a practice engaged in by groups that aren’t “us” Even those of us who aren’t religious are still impacted by religious imprints on cultural norms for the area.

The actual reason?

The gender balance at birth is generally close to 50/50, I think it’s closer to 51/49 but it’s close enough that it doesn’t matter. If one man takes two or more wives, it means there will not be enough women for every other man to also find a wife.

When a lot of these cultural norms were set, the gender ratios in specific regions were often completely skewed by wars and other deaths related to fighting, most of which happened in men. This left more women than men.

The other significant factor was that women used to die in childbirth, a lot, so having multiple wives was almost an insurance policy to make sure you still had a wife after a few years.

As death from injuries/war and childbirth decreased it has become less of a practical arrangement and there’s little reason to switch away from monogamy to polygamy given that it’s the current cultural norm anyways.

That being said, I don’t see anything inherently wrong with polygamy myself it as long as all parties are informed and consenting.

Unfortunately a lot of the groups that still practice polygamy often do not educate women, do not provide paths for them to succeed independently, or even outright control them as property.

I took up ice hockey as an adult.

If you try hard, it’s an insanely good workout.