Love in the time of compound interest, pt. 2: everything that will go wrong with marriage and why you should do it anyway
Part two of a two-part guide to understanding love through capitalism.
I missed the last big wedding I was invited to because I had an econometrics final while I was living in Amsterdam. I’m now using that degree to write an essay about why marriage is a bad investment. I’m still not over it, and I don’t mean the econometrics.
In the part one essay, Love in the Time of Cap Tables, I made the case that marriage is angel investing. You’re betting your entire emotional portfolio on one unproven asset with no liquidity, no diversification, and a 50% historical failure rate.
Here’s what’s coming in part two where I go more deeply into how angel investing is like marriage through founder-market fit, runway, and all the due diligence you didn’t do and forgot about because they always made you laugh.
If we survive the audit, the return on investment becomes our focus. This is important considering that I have tried to examine all the reasons one should not marry. God, there were so many.
