11 months ago. Saturday, February 1, 2025 at 6:03 AM
In the early 1900s Argentina decided that people being unmarried was a problem so they imposed a tax on bachelors. Thankfully the tax could be avoided if the man could prove he had proposed marriage and been rejected, giving rise to a class of ladies who for a fee would provide the rejection. And this was far from a unique situation. 100,000 women in the Austro-Hungarian Empire signed a petition demanding the same law.
The lesson being you can be thankful you live in a time when your mother has not unionized to demand the government force you to do something about those grandchildren she's been looking forward to.