Real Origin Of Monogamy
Why marriage tend to be monogamous?
Well, there are about the same number of males to females.
That seems like a pairing.
However, males want as many females as possible. Women prefer the best genes measurable by wealth.
Some restaurants, for example, are full. Some restaurants are empty.
There is no restriction that all restaurants deserve the same number of customers?
So why monogamy becomes the norm?
Look at the Arab. The oil money goes to the Arab king. Why? Because the Arab king is in power.
It seems that natural resources tend to get divided proportional to military power.
Say you productively create wealth, and then some robbers put gun in your head. Guess who will enjoy your wealth?
If this keep going then people will all try to be martial artists rather than farmers. So some societies come up with better ways to encourage acts that promote common interests more.
One such arrangements are democracy.
To understand how monogamy work, we need to understand the ancient Greek. The ancient Greek is the first democratic countries in the world.
Democracy has one benefit. Democracy replaces civil war. When we have different opinions of what governments should do, we can settle our different by voting rather than killing each other.
Democracy is also a stable social contract. If some guy get 80% of the vote. The other side will know that they won’t win anyway if they wage a civil war. So they may as well yield.
It comes with pluses and minus of course.
In ancient time, only the male can vote. Why? That’s because males are stronger than females. We are trying to replace a civil war you see.
If 60% of the population vote for Julius Caesar, but all of which are females, obviously it wouldn’t be a stable social contract. The other side will fight anyway rather than honoring the social contract.
Now, natural resources get divided proportional with ones’ political power. One man one vote soon leads to one man one wife.
And that’s why we have monogamy.