This is a sad trend for people and society. It’s been proven for many years now: building a committed relationship with one person and then raising children in that nuclear two-parent family contributes more to creating healthy, happy adults and a well functioning society than anything else (ie wealth vs poverty, health history, zip code, race). So the implication of the trend below, if it doesn’t self correct are terrible for society as a whole: 1) there will be more and more promiscuity and, as a byproduct, less kids born 2) what few kids we do have will grow up in non two parent households It may seem “fun” and “free” to be a 20/30 something with a roster, but many of these folks will wake up alone, too late to act on the simple truth that being in a committed relationship and having kids is not an indulgence of a thriving society but a requirement.
@chamath Dating apps are contributing to this greatly. We have taken the relationship and courting process and distilled it into an assembly-line commodity product, where bad actors and users suffer no reputational consequences for bad behavior (ghosting etc). Its incredibly destructive.
@RudolphTroha Hooking up used to be a byproduct of getting to know someone. The apps made it the reverse and it’s clearly not working for a lot of folks.
@RudolphTroha @chamath Careful now. You’re 1 layer away from assigning accountability, which the masses aren’t ready to acknowledge.
@RudolphTroha @chamath Dating apps cause excess profiling. Someone needs to invent an app that incentives large groups of single people to congregate.
@RudolphTroha @chamath The vagina has definitely become a commodity. Women decided we would be a polygamist society. Men adapted
@RudolphTroha @chamath And the commodity is std ridden overweight single moms
@RudolphTroha @chamath This is a big-ass nothingburger
@RudolphTroha @chamath Also a wholly incomplete analysis. Regards.
@RudolphTroha @chamath Seems like an opportunity for an app to build in features to create consequences for bad behavior. Maybe with targeted follow up questions. I.e. “were they late?” “Were they rude in any way?” Etc. but not: “did you like them?”