The Torah613Torah Socioeconomic Model For Shidduch Crisis Recovery: (TTSMFSCR for short)
I propose the “simcha rating”. The more you fix the shidduch crisis, the more simcha. And this should have economic implications.
Suppose the difference in years exactly correlates to the number of marriages. This means we can assign a “simcha rating” to every successful shidduch.
E.g. A 24 year old man marries an 19 year old woman: Their simcha rating -5, since his getting married resulted in 5 other girls NOT getting married.
Suppose a 20 year old man marries a 24 year old woman: +4.
This provides an easy way to solve the shidduch crisis: Compel every person who marries someone younger has to pay $1000 for every year the woman is younger to NASI. And NASI pays out $1000 per year for every year that the woman is older.
Perhaps Mr. Rechnitz would be willing to jumpstart this initiative?