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Changes in how couples in the US met
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Isn't that what real life is anyway? Bars have a profit motive (and incidentally they're going up to). And your circle of friends, family, coworkers is primarily profit driven too by the job you have, the social class of your family, etc. If anything, online dating has helped expand the pool as you can actually find people with similar interests and likes outside of a small circle you previously had access to that may not have anyone in.
No, having a job isn't remotely the same thing as a corporation / capitalist being driven by the profit motive - in the latter case profit is extracted from the labour of the people with jobs. And your friends, family, coworkers, or the bar you go to generally don't have a financial incentive in making sure that you remain romantically unsatisfied, or absolute control over the social circle you're exposed to; in contrast a successful long term monogamous relationship is literally a bad thing from the perspective of the shareholders of a dating app (in the same way that social media sites like Facebook basically make a business model out of addiction).