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I wonder if repeat business is a problem. The article mentions a fake engagement, which isn't really a friend just a way to appease his parents. Paying to rent

by kirykl 11y ago

I wonder if repeat business is a problem. The article mentions a fake engagement, which isn't really a friend just a way to appease his parents. Paying to rent a friend could be useful for things like that. But for real friendship I think it would get depressing real fast

diskcat 11y ago
>I think it would get depressing real fast Well people do pay for cuddles and companionship. It's like when you aren't really that hungry you won't eat that slightly off 1 week old chicken but if you are hungry and nothing else is available it doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
- kirykl 11y ago
  Cuddles and I assume you mean the stronger version of companionship seem to be physically comforting. Paying someone solely to behave like we have a trusting bond, that they care that I exist, is paying someone to lie to me. That's more invasive mentally than an hour of physical contact
  - logfromblammo 11y ago
    I might pay someone to play tabletop board and card games with me one night a week. That's pretty much what I would do with actual friends anyway. And if I were paid to do the same, I'd think that's a pretty good gig--unless the friendship contract stipulated a certain frequency of letting the boss win, of course. I don't need much of a trusting bond. Just eat my snacks, drink my drinks, laugh at the 10% of my jokes that actually deserve it, and take your weekly card-table curbstomping without much more than a token amount of complaints. If I were single, I might also hire a wingman or blocker to back me up at the local meet market venues.
  - moron4hire 11y ago
    IDK, I suspect half the time, my real friends and I are pretending to like each other, to maintain polite relationships for the other half of the time that we actually do enjoy each other. What I mean is, nobody actually wants, needs, or should have 100% pure honesty all the time. Does it matter if the 3.5 days out of 7 that someone puts up with my cantankerous nature is to have access to my money or the other 3.5 days that I'm shaved and showered and generally pleasant?
- Thriptic 11y ago
  Yeah I feel like there were a few dark times in my life when I would have definitely paid for this service; paying someone to go out and have fun with you certainly beats sitting in your apartment drinking alone and feeling bad.

by kirykl 11y ago

diskcat 11y ago

>I think it would get depressing real fast Well people do pay for cuddles and companionship. It's like when you aren't really that hungry you won't eat that slightly off 1 week old chicken but if you are hungry and nothing else is available it doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

kirykl 11y ago
Cuddles and I assume you mean the stronger version of companionship seem to be physically comforting. Paying someone solely to behave like we have a trusting bond, that they care that I exist, is paying someone to lie to me. That's more invasive mentally than an hour of physical contact
- logfromblammo 11y ago
  I might pay someone to play tabletop board and card games with me one night a week. That's pretty much what I would do with actual friends anyway. And if I were paid to do the same, I'd think that's a pretty good gig--unless the friendship contract stipulated a certain frequency of letting the boss win, of course. I don't need much of a trusting bond. Just eat my snacks, drink my drinks, laugh at the 10% of my jokes that actually deserve it, and take your weekly card-table curbstomping without much more than a token amount of complaints. If I were single, I might also hire a wingman or blocker to back me up at the local meet market venues.
- moron4hire 11y ago
  IDK, I suspect half the time, my real friends and I are pretending to like each other, to maintain polite relationships for the other half of the time that we actually do enjoy each other. What I mean is, nobody actually wants, needs, or should have 100% pure honesty all the time. Does it matter if the 3.5 days out of 7 that someone puts up with my cantankerous nature is to have access to my money or the other 3.5 days that I'm shaved and showered and generally pleasant?
Thriptic 11y ago
Yeah I feel like there were a few dark times in my life when I would have definitely paid for this service; paying someone to go out and have fun with you certainly beats sitting in your apartment drinking alone and feeling bad.