Polygyny Alive and Well in Canada

The Pareto Effect


I know a lot of single guys, and on my daily travels I see a lot more perpetually single people. It’s not that these guys are continually single, but instead, they are continuously single. Continuously meaning without end within the specified time period, whereas continually refers to semi-constant or off and on again. Upon reflection, other than less friends than fingers I have on my right-hand (Jer, Dave and two others) I know of not a single guy who is currently dating, neither within my university clique nor within my group of life-long friends(?). This group of single, sexually frustrated men is pretty substantial to say the least, and I suppose it is arguable that social misfits will group together, which would account for my knowing of so many when I myself am included in this group. However, no matter the social structure, there are considerably greater proportions of continuously single guys than there are guys who are not in this category.


Girls however, seem to suffer from this problem at significantly less proportion, and in fact it seems as if there is an inverse relationship. Girls that I know always seem to be dating at one point or another, they never seem to go for 2 or 3 or 21 years of independence. These girls always seem to be in a relationship, just out of one, or developing one.

This is an inconsistency; the population of Canada has been divided into 52% girls and 48% guys. How is it that all girls are dating or have dated recently, while guys seem to be stuck in a life long rut? Looking at the numbers you would expect an equal number of guys to girls who are equally unsuccessful at life.


This is where economics plays in.


The “Pareto Effect” is an economic theory that suggests that 20% of a given capitalist population control the other 80%. The 20% consist of individuals like Gates, Trump Black, and etcetera. These characters own us, because they control a significant amount of the population, resource, land and capital that us poor people are allowed to work with. The Pareto Effect seems almost inevitable; a universal truth within any society, this effect is especially evident within Latin American countries whose income distribution is undeniably unequal. In Latin American countries it is not unusual for 80% of the population to find themselves living on or below the poverty line, while the other 20% live like the sultans of Saudi. This is a sad but inevitable realization, but with the way capitalism has been designed there isn’t much choice.

After careful analysis the Pareto Effect, as it seems, is not limited to economic structures, but can be applied to the social structure of a given human population.


In Canada, or I hypothesize any North American city, 20% of the guy population controls 80% of the female population. So, in terms more easily understandable, in a population of 100 people equally divided between 50% guys and 50% girls, 10 guys will control 40 girls.

While the 10 girls and the 40 guys will remain independent. There are four reasons that the remaining 10 girls will stay indie from the large majority of remaining guys.

A) They have a number of incompatible defects
B) Simply choose to avoid that 20% of guys, but are too coy to say what they really want to say to one of the remaining 40 guys-these 40 guys whose self-confidence has been beaten and battered so many time that they have finally come to terms with their fate: effectively fading from the gene pool.
C) The girl is just plain gross and listens to jayzee
D) Crazy kidney stealing bitch

Any further analysis is beyond the scope of this article, because it seems as though the majority of the male population is more or less out of luck, while the minority of 20% may feast at will upon the fecund land of North America

The Pareto Effect will persist with little change, which is evidenced by any given Latin American country, specifically Brazil, where 80% of the population are dirt poor, and have not one option to better their situation- likewise Canada suffers from a similar, though perhaps less important dilema, the remaining 80% of men will never gather enough self-confidence to better their situation and thus the cycle of poverty will persist into oblivion.

I suppose the catholic church attempted to give us guys a fighting chance, but with the rate of divorces and marriages, it’s become a bit of a losing battle.