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>All women are going after the same top x% of men, so most men miss out. Men are a lot less picky, but the women they’re interested in are too determined on bei
by aphextron 8y ago
>All women are going after the same top x% of men, so most men miss out. Men are a lot less picky, but the women they’re interested in are too determined on being with the top x% to be interested in them.
Sounds a lot like job searching too.
But really though, dating is just a market like any other. And these new apps have done nothing but facilitate "price discovery" at a level of efficiency we're not used to. For attractive heterosexual men, it's literally the greatest thing ever. I can turn on Bumble and be messaged by dozens of women within hours. But the flip side of that is what it does to people. Everyone becomes flakey, and treats others as disposable in a way that never existed before. You see it everywhere in society now.
- lisper 8y ago> dating is just a market like any other No, it's not like any other. Dating is inherently a barter transaction. Also, the thing you're exchanging (time spent in someone else's company) is not transferrable. If you trade a sheep for a goat you can then turn around and trade the goat for something else. Not so with dating. The "product" you're exchanging is necessarily consumed at the time the transaction takes place.
- ivrrimum 8y agoIf you turn the word dating into a "service", all your arguments become false.