More spicy signals!
Today I look at how polyamory is trending in the WEIRD world - from figuratively polyamourous geopolitics through to the more literal sort, it’s everywhere.
But the signal I spotted for you today, which focuses on a married couple who brought in a third parter to live with them, claiming it was the “only way” they could afford to buy a house.
Logic aside, the idea that double income famously units are no longer enough to fund a “decent” Western middle class lifestyle (much like single income households went the way of the dinosaur in the 21st century - few, few women have a *choice* about working in formal employment now!) is an interesting and not altogether inaccurate idea - in the age of Degrowth and MMT inflation.
Could family financial pressure not just incentivise polyamorous situationships of neccecity but also point towards other multi-adult home structures, friend pods, inter generational “sandwich” homes (where granny and gramps and Aunty move back in) ?
And what does the normalisation of previously taboo polyamory in the literal sense say about shifting social norms and taboos - which are, admittedly, always in flux - and our desire to be seen and loved?
Quantity & quality trade offs abound.
Your thoughts?
Read more:
Three income homes : https://nypost.com/2024/02/01/lifestyle/i-live-with-my-husband-and-my-boyfriend-polyamory-is-the-only-way-we-can-afford-a-home/
Polypolitcs (when you need more than one geopolitical sugar daddy to fund your development state dreams) : https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/geopolitical-polyamory-us-china-rivalry-most-countries-wont-pick-sides-by-mark-leonard-2023-11
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