In some cases I’m sure that’s happened and that’s terrible, but let’s not pretend it was every marriage that ever happened until the twentieth century.
It was probably more common among upper-class where people married for alliances and influence. And there may have been / still be some cultures where it’s more common in general to have arranged marriages, but most of those these days at least require the agreement of both spouses. Not all, unfortunately, but the only way to stop that would literally be to colonize the whole world and enforce our own enlightened morality, and that would be hard to justify.
In some cases I’m sure that’s happened and that’s terrible, but let’s not pretend it was every marriage that ever happened until the twentieth century.
It was probably more common among upper-class where people married for alliances and influence. And there may have been / still be some cultures where it’s more common in general to have arranged marriages, but most of those these days at least require the agreement of both spouses. Not all, unfortunately, but the only way to stop that would literally be to colonize the whole world and enforce our own enlightened morality, and that would be hard to justify.
Trading a truck for a wife is wild though