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Interesting times ahead. Especially for Gen Z and younger, who rely heavily on dating apps instead of going out to meet new potential partners. Dating apps whic

Interesting times ahead. Especially for Gen Z and younger, who rely heavily on dating apps instead of going out to meet new potential partners. Dating apps which are highly ineffective at actually generating relationships for most people (particularly for straight males). I predict Gen Z birth rate will be less than 1 per woman, but this might not be a problem for Western economies for now as Western countries can just increase immigration.

bmitc 5y ago
> Dating apps which are highly ineffective at actually generating relationships for most people (particularly for straight males). I didn’t really find that’s the case. I think that’s the perception, but it wasn’t that hard to meet nice, educated people looking for actual relationships on the various dating apps I once used. The failure rate has got to be much less than the failure rate out of all the potential partners one meets naturally. If anything, dating apps are equalizers. They don’t require you to break into a clique in any activity where you might try to naturally meet people.
- thirdlamp 5y ago
  The incentive for dating apps is towards one night stands. If a relationship is formed on their platform they lose 2 customers and their revenue.
  - bmitc 5y ago
    That's not at all true for all dating apps and their users. I used apps nearly exclusively geared towards and users who were looking for standard dates and relationships with long term horizons. The model for these apps is to get new or returning users under subscription. Apps and/or users targeting the short term are easily avoided.
iammisc 5y ago
Eventually western countries will be taken over by Muslims and non white Christians and we will have normal social structures again. This is not a pejorative. As an immigrant, I think this will be great.
- drukenemo 5y ago
  I hope very much that doesn’t happen. That’s not pejorative.
  - iammisc 5y ago
    I understand that white people would find this scary, and I honest to goodness hope that the majority of white people in this country go back to having some semblance of a successful culture, but I don't see that happening in the white culture at large, so we will have to take what we get.
- dutchCourage 5y ago
  > we will have normal social structures again. What do you consider "normal"?
  - dustintrex 5y ago
    Monogamous marriage between a man and a woman is historically far and away most common social structure around the world, although obviously there is a vast amount of variety.
    - TulliusCicero 5y ago
      Okay, but we still have monogamous long-term relationships between straight men and women as the norm, in terms of what is most common. Those haven't gone away. We've just become more accepting of people who don't fit the standard mold. So it sounds like anyone clamoring for a return to historical norms is actually clamoring for a return to bigotry: returning to treating gay people like garbage, for example, and denying their relationships legal rights.
      - iammisc 5y ago
        > returning to treating gay people like garbage, for example, and denying their relationships legal rights. A lot of what gay people claim is treating them 'like garbage' is just the natural limitation of a homosexual relationship. For example, not being able to rent a womb is not being treated like garbage. No one has been allowed to do that for most of history, and most straight people can't do that. Not being allowed to rent wombs is just not being allowed to being what amounts to a slaveholder.
adammunich 5y ago
I like how gender is now considered a spectrum
bawolff 5y ago
Birth rates have been falling for decades at this point. Pretty much since the industrial revolution. Dating apps are new. Hard to blame birth rates on them.

bmitc 5y ago

> Dating apps which are highly ineffective at actually generating relationships for most people (particularly for straight males). I didn’t really find that’s the case. I think that’s the perception, but it wasn’t that hard to meet nice, educated people looking for actual relationships on the various dating apps I once used. The failure rate has got to be much less than the failure rate out of all the potential partners one meets naturally. If anything, dating apps are equalizers. They don’t require you to break into a clique in any activity where you might try to naturally meet people.

thirdlamp 5y ago
The incentive for dating apps is towards one night stands. If a relationship is formed on their platform they lose 2 customers and their revenue.
- bmitc 5y ago
  That's not at all true for all dating apps and their users. I used apps nearly exclusively geared towards and users who were looking for standard dates and relationships with long term horizons. The model for these apps is to get new or returning users under subscription. Apps and/or users targeting the short term are easily avoided.

iammisc 5y ago

Eventually western countries will be taken over by Muslims and non white Christians and we will have normal social structures again. This is not a pejorative. As an immigrant, I think this will be great.

drukenemo 5y ago
I hope very much that doesn’t happen. That’s not pejorative.
- iammisc 5y ago
  I understand that white people would find this scary, and I honest to goodness hope that the majority of white people in this country go back to having some semblance of a successful culture, but I don't see that happening in the white culture at large, so we will have to take what we get.
dutchCourage 5y ago
> we will have normal social structures again. What do you consider "normal"?
- dustintrex 5y ago
  Monogamous marriage between a man and a woman is historically far and away most common social structure around the world, although obviously there is a vast amount of variety.
  - TulliusCicero 5y ago
    Okay, but we still have monogamous long-term relationships between straight men and women as the norm, in terms of what is most common. Those haven't gone away. We've just become more accepting of people who don't fit the standard mold. So it sounds like anyone clamoring for a return to historical norms is actually clamoring for a return to bigotry: returning to treating gay people like garbage, for example, and denying their relationships legal rights.
    - iammisc 5y ago
      > returning to treating gay people like garbage, for example, and denying their relationships legal rights. A lot of what gay people claim is treating them 'like garbage' is just the natural limitation of a homosexual relationship. For example, not being able to rent a womb is not being treated like garbage. No one has been allowed to do that for most of history, and most straight people can't do that. Not being allowed to rent wombs is just not being allowed to being what amounts to a slaveholder.

adammunich 5y ago

I like how gender is now considered a spectrum

bawolff 5y ago

Birth rates have been falling for decades at this point. Pretty much since the industrial revolution. Dating apps are new. Hard to blame birth rates on them.