Interesting proposition. Interesting why mut'ah-like marriage institutions, though exist but does not proliferate throughout most cultures. One potential explanation: the imperfect information in the marriage market. A thread. (1/n) https://twitter.com/BrownFireball/status/1284919361204097024

Marriage market, like all markets, is a two-sided affair. You need both players to agree to the contract a priori. If two players come into contract with different priors, say one party comes to engage in a non-committal short-term relationship (2/n)

while another party comes to have the 'sanctity' of the contract not taken for granted. Then it may be a recipe for 'disaster' i.e. mid-contract reneging will become likely.

Full disclosure: I am an stubborn empiricist not a theorist, (3/n)

so think this is eventually an empirical question and must be tested. Also, we have to think carefully how asymmetric bargaining power of the players may impact the outcomes.

End Thread. (n/n)

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