[Eagle Eye]

Look at Saudi Arabia, where the richest men take 4 (or more wives) and many, many young men are left without access to women.

Many of those wives are imported.

But your theory supposes that every man always gets a wife, and that ain't true anywhere you go.

The powerful in life almost always get more than the weak and that is just the way it is. And should be.

[Pessimist]

"Many of those wives are imported."

They're just marrying the Saudis that other Saudis won't marry. :)

[snarks_when_bored]

The powerful in life almost always get more than the weak and that is just the way it is. And should be.

Your first statement is true, but you should've stopped there. Your second statement is normative and is subject to debate. It's up to us to decide how our polity ought to be organized. And we have a right to decide whether we want our laws to promote comity or disharmony.

In the first book of Plato's Republic, Thrasymachus tries to force Socrates and the other listeners to accept the proposition that justice is the advantage of the stronger. Socrates wasn't having any of that and ultimately reduced Thrasymachus to frustrated silence by force of argument. An interesting tableaux.

[Jibaholic]

The powerful in life almost always get more than the weak and that is just the way it is. And should be.

The meek shall inherit the earth. This is particularly true because those non-alpha males (who otherwise would blow themselves up for 72 virgins in heaven) are just as good (or better) at doing things like entrepreneurship, engineering, and designing advanced weapon systems.