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It wholly mass-commoditizes something that has never been mass-commoditized (and should never be) before. When this happens, you're often left with the raw econ
by JohnWhigham 5y ago
It wholly mass-commoditizes something that has never been mass-commoditized (and should never be) before. When this happens, you're often left with the raw economics of the situation. And this is what's happened with dating. And hoo boy, do people not like talking about it either. It displays a lot of uncomfortable truths about men and women's places in societies. If anything it should be discussed more, but emotions often get in the way.
- imbnwa 5y agoThat discussion is the one Kevin Samuels is leading in the Black community where these problems are even more magnified
- thickened 5y agoStarted watching some of his videos. Very interesting and, in earnest, doesn't seem to be any different in other communities. Amplified in some ways in particular because he brings up the incarceration rates.
- imbnwa 5y agoNever heard him bring up incarceration rates (link? perhaps content I've never seen), he tends to highlight the stats around children-out-of-wedlock, ratio of unmarried to married Black women, and amount of unmarried, childless middle-class Black men. The first and second issues being fairly specific to the Black community.
- thickened 5y agoI don't know the exact one to be honest - it's one of the 15+ minute ones where he has a caller and he takes apart why their expectations are over the top and they should reconsider. He lists statistics like, so-and-so % of black men earn less than $X, so-and-so % of black men are imprisoned, and so on. Probably one of the ones that expects a $500k/yr guy. For anyone who hasn't watched his YT vids, take 30 min and go through some of his shorter clips. It's quite interesting what the expectations out there are.
- redis_mlc 5y agoI haven't seen KS talk much about incarceration rates, but that's because his focus is on bw, and bm who are successful businessmen. What KS brings up specifically about the black community is that bw don't respect (ie. despise) bm, which doesn't happen in other groups, and is really the focus of his show. (His bw guests invariably admit that at the end of the discussion.)
- lotsofpulp 5y agoTinder should also incorporate credit reports and probabilities of future income based on occupation. Can probably automatically generate a forecast profit and loss statement for various scenarios.
- jdminhbg 5y agoRelationships have in fact been literally commoditized for most of human history, through dowries, bride prices, etc.
- lamp987 5y agoDoesnt mean we should return to that horrible state.