This sounds very much like an armchair investigation. Most modern marriages, i.e. today, not 15 years ago, are between couples of very similar ages and similar incomes. You’ve got an assumption that women strongly prefer older men—your conclusion that a young man will have difficulty dating at his own age requires this. This may have been true back in the day, before women could pay their own bills. It’s certainly true of some subset of women. But if marriage numbers mean anything, and I would rather think they do, women in general aren’t after meaningfully older men, which suggests that younger men are not at as strong a disadvantage as you have assumed.
This sounds very much like an armchair investigation. Most modern marriages, i.e. today, not 15 years ago, are between couples of very similar ages and similar incomes. You’ve got an assumption that women strongly prefer older men—your conclusion that a young man will have difficulty dating at his own age requires this. This may have been true back in the day, before women could pay their own bills. It’s certainly true of some subset of women. But if marriage numbers mean anything, and I would rather think they do, women in general aren’t after meaningfully older men, which suggests that younger men are not at as strong a disadvantage as you have assumed.