I think this is a great way of putting it. Dating apps very often feel this way to me: no one is perfect, so it's very difficult to know if you're making the ri

I think this is a great way of putting it. Dating apps very often feel this way to me: no one is perfect, so it's very difficult to know if you're making the right set of tradeoffs, and then you feel very impersonal for looking at dating through that lens. Currently reading The Paradox of Choice, hoping it gives me more clarity on navigating problems like this, but I'd be curious if others here have thoughts or additional reading on that topic as well. With regards to the "one local doctor" point: I think the question is whether we lost something when we lost that mutual dependence on someone, forcing us to all get along. I'd argue the benefits we gained from more choice were better, but we didn't exactly acknowledge what it was that we lost.