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Challenges of Coordinating Adult Lives and Changing Social Norms
Coordinating fully fleshed out adult lives is harder due to merging lives with someone else, leading to difficulties in making decisions such as job locations. Social norms around education and relationship timelines have shifted, with prolonged engagements becoming more common. The societal shift towards extended adolescence is attributed to the evolving human capital intensive economy, where acquiring human capital like education and skills is essential for success, leading to delayed peak income and more discrimination in mating.