I was listening to Thomas Sowell, a conservative/libertarian writer speaking against welfare and affirmative action for "disadvantaged groups". (He's African American himself.) This section of the interview seems relevant to MGTOW.

Brief Summary

Before major welfare reforms in the 1960's, the majority of black kids were raised in two parent households. Centuries of slavery and decades of Jim Crow did not destroy the black family. But one generation of the welfare state did.

In 1965 25% of black kids were born out of wedlock. In 2015 70% of black kids were born out of wedlock.

They don't really analyze it in too much depth, other than "too much welfare has destructive effects".

My Own Analysis

I think this supports the general manosphere analysis of gender relations.

The family unit is an economic transaction. Men exchange resources for sex from women.

In the past, women would marry individual men for their resources.

Now, women are married to the government which extracts resources from individual men through taxes and redistributes it to single mothers.

In reality marriage was always an economic transaction, we just added the window dressing of romance and sentimental notions of "true love" to make it more palatable.

The modern institution of marriage is in decay. 50% divorce rates across the Western world, the rate of marriage is getting lower every year.

Humans are animals whose behaviour is dictated by their environment. In times of abundance (even if it's artificially induced among the lower classes through government wealth redistribution) we practice short term, promiscuous mating. In times of scarcity we practice long term, monogamous mating.

This is the essence of the Red Pill. There's no such thing as altruistic love between men and women. Or if there is, it's the exception rather than the norm. The feminists are kind of right. Men are becoming obsolete. They are no longer essential as individual providers for women in the context of the welfare state. They've lost their sexual marketplace bargaining power.

The traditionalists and PUA's want to take it back through different means. "Shrink the government!" or "Approach and Lift Bro. Stoic and Machiavellian bro. Machiavelli bro. Alpha bro. Plates bro." MGTOW's say "damn, being a provider workhorse was never that great in the first place."

Link

https://youtu.be/sGYl17DiEwo?t=1199