I’m Fascinated How DINKs Are Part Of The Culture Wars Now

How about a world where we don’t politicize everything?

Ted Bauer
4 min readDec 31, 2023

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DINKs have apparently become a content goldmine of late, ironically beginning with TikTok of all places, to the point that now CNBC is weighing in on DINKs, including a guy with fabulous hair:

And of course, Elon is weighing in too:

(What happened to people just making their money and not being a part of the culture wars? What about that French guy who is usually №3 in world wealth? I feel like he doesn’t get involved in every Twitter feud possible. We need more dudes like that.)

Anyway, this is all happening at a very interesting intersection. We have:

  1. A declining fertility rate — I think we’re at 1.7 kids per couple, which is…

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Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.