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Re:Young men say why many of them are single: ‘Dates feel mo... by rnk on Thursday March 02, 2023 @07:41PM (#35004199)
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.
Re:Young men say why many of them are single: ‘Dates feel mo... by thfuran on Thursday March 02, 2023 @07:48PM (#35004277)
But 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.
Re:Young men say why many of them are single: ‘Dates feel mo... by rdiddly on Thursday March 02, 2023 @07:56PM (#35004367)
I 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.