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Love & Marriage

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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Polygamy and the Marriage Metaphor

In the case of two farmers on a large tract of land, they can each do whatever one farmer could do. But at some point, adding more people will not add to the total output because they will start to get in each other's way. I'm wondering if it gets at the concept of polygamy. Traditionally, polygamy has meant one man with multiple wives. And there are clear biological reasons why that direction of polygamy is more common than the other way around.

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