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I think that's a pretty naive view of the world, even if it has a little truth. There have always been matchmakers who got paid for making a match. If you paid
by rnk 4y ago
I think that's a pretty naive view of the world, even if it has a little truth. There have always been matchmakers who got paid for making a match. If you paid more, you got a better one maybe. They matched you with another human, like it was a commodity too.
- thfuran 4y agoBut that's not really the business model of dating sites, is it? If they find matches that are too good, they take people out of their market. They want people to keep paying them to find new potential dates.
- rdiddly 4y agoI think that part was included just to illustrate the more baroque manifestations of commercializing relationships. The main point that I took away was that commerce itself (commodity-based, transactional, impersonal/disconnected) is a lousy model for dealing with human relationships, which are personal, unquantifiable, and literally connections.