Did he just compare women to property or a commodity? Misogynist!
His argument: By allowing high-status men to hoard wives at the expense of lower-status men, polygamy withdraws the opportunity to marry from people who now have it.
I don’t see how that is an argument against polygamy happening. There are many women who would marry for SECURITY and there are many high status men who would want to have more than one woman.
Is he suggesting that this won’t happen? Why not?
AS for “polygamy withdraws the opportunity to marry from people who now have it.”, again, how is that an argument against polygamy occurring?
Either a person will strive to become high status or he is out of luck. There are many out of luck people who don’t have the means to marry now. That does not : A) Stop them from marrying; B) Stop those who have the means from having mistresses.