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Robert Frank is a moderately socialist economics professor at Cornell, so take his quotes with a grain of salt. The article talks about young men playing video
by redis_mlc 5y ago
Robert Frank is a moderately socialist economics professor at Cornell, so take his quotes with a grain of salt.
The article talks about young men playing video games excessively. A contributing factor is that online dating women are looking for the top 5%-20% or so of men now (combination of appearance and hypergamy), so the bottom 80% to 95% are not dateable online.
(A recent survey said women are only interested in the top 4.9% of men in dating apps, versus the previous estimates of 10%-20%. This is called unrestricted hypergamy and has horrible consequences for both women and society at large, as those 4.9% of men essentially have harems of short-term relationships because they can, and the other men can just play video games.)
I've never heard somebody say, "I want to accumulate the fruits of workers' labor", so I think the understanding of motivation is backwards - it's to create a company or solve a problem, and if workers are needed, you hire them. This is HN, so for most readers should be obvious.
The deeper psychology is that most men need a purpose in life, and a startup is very purposeful. Whether it succeeds or fails is kept by financial score, but it still serves the purpose of getting up daily, focusing on tasks, and trying to "make a dent in the universe." (Richard Cooper)
- watwut 5y ago> horrible consequences for both women and society at large, as those 4.9% of men essentially have harems of short-term relationships because they can, and the other men can just play video games People who have many short term causual relationship have those because they want short term causual relationships - both men and women. They are not the same people as those who seek long term relationships. They have neither values nor interpersonal skills and habits for them. The woman who supposedly enters the dating you talk about would had exactly same sex life and exactly same low quality relationship if she went for a gamer. Except maybe less fun as you don't get to have fun with someone who plays LoL.
- mycologos 5y ago> exactly same low quality relationship if she went for a gamer I dunno, it's probably pretty different being in a relationship with somebody who would have an easy time finding somebody to cheat with vs. somebody who would have a hard time finding somebody to cheat with. Yeah, there are drawbacks to both, but they're not the same drawbacks.
- watwut 5y agoI would not say so. Whether the guy cheats depends on whether he is willing to cheat. After all, anyone can pay for prostitute if he really wants to. Plus, if he can't find anyone to cheat with, you probably don't want him for exactly same reasons.