From Bride price in China: the obstacle to “Bare Branches” seeking marriage (2012) by Jiang & Sánchez-Barricarte. You can download the article on sci-hub, the main focus of paper is the economics of 'bride prices' and the trap poor rural families get into as their incel bare branch son gets older and the 'bride price' his family has to pay starts rising quickly leading to desperate situations..
Just like how the phenomenon of hikikomori gradually made its way from Japan to the West, so will the 'bare branch' desperation you see in rural China come to the West. Although it's not so much a lack of financial capital that keeps Western incels in a state of inceldom, but a lack of socio-sexual capital. The issue with the latter is that its tightly wound up with social status, and low status cannot simply be allievated. Status is a zero-sum game after all.
I think male inceldom might become a educational concern in the near future, if modern Western educational trends stay constant and the college bubble doesn't somehow burst, then long educational tracks will stay the norm in the West. Long deferral of income and keeping motivated to study hard while you are barely part of society and lack any 'intermediate social and sexual rewards' is very hard. As stated in the quote above: your 'life discipline' declines due to involuntary bachelorhood.
Male inceldom starts to nag at you at 16, starts to actually hurt you in your 20s - and makes you susceptible to dropping out of school or society altogether. Foids' hypergamy might destabilize our societies and weaken them internally, adding to the problems of overproduction of elites (too many upper middle class aspirants), a poor and generally nihilistic millennial generation and a general decline of growth of real wages.
tl;dr it's over.
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