Because I’m curious whether this is a pro-adaptive or mal-adaptive social construct. It’s a purely utilitarian question: could a bunch of polyamorous people successfully survive in their own third world village? Would they raise healthy kids that would be able to create civilizational progress? I don’t know the answer to that, hence the experiment.
I’m personally curious if our cultural obsession with JS devs is pro-adaptive or mal-adaptive. The logical way to test this would be to send a bunch of JS devs to a Bangladeshi village and see if they survive.
In other words, you can’t really test a lot of social constructs in isolation.
JS dev is a specialized trade that fills a social function within a larger society that needs many different kinds of jobs. Does polyamory serve such a specialized social function? Does society need any poly people at all? Like, if the world is ending and we need to send a 500 people to Mars to preserve humanity. What fraction of poly people do we need to bring to ensure the success of the mission?
