This really connects to the post made by OP. Dating has become some kind of market, especially with the rise of online dating. Or at least it can be analysed as a marketplace.

If you look at how redpillers look at dating, the image becomes quite clear. I dont agree with them for a bit and actually think their way of looking at the world is dangerous to one person and to society as a whole but its still quite interesting.

They talk about sexual market value, how to increase it all that. And its an effect of how dating is approached these days.

I often find that online dating resembles applying for a job. Youve got your pictures with a bio which resembles a application letter, then there is the talking stage wich looks like a job interview, then the first or second date which is a second job interview.

I think it is an effect of what Mark Fisher calls "capitalist realism". For many, it is almost impossible to imagine any other system than capitalism. Its often easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.

Therefore, everything (dating included) is put in this capitalist framwork. A framework that resembles a marketplace.

For those of us with busy lives, social anxiety or still stuck in lockdown measures, online dating is the only option.

Now to react to your comment, dating has changed so much in the last 10 years or so. The need to invest in each other (no pun intended), to have patience with each others shortcomings, quircks, difficulties has gone almost completly out of the window.

Now it is so easy for anyone to just ghost someone, swipe right a few times and finding a "better" option. I put better in quotation marks because it is the lack of investing that causes people to never really being sure someone is in fact the better option. This results in a perpetual cycle of never really meeting someone and gettinf to know them.

This is from a male perspective of course and maybe im projecting so im curious about your opinion.

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