Great perspectives on the elusive what's-wrong-with-hamster-wheel-living: lots of motion and energy but you never get anywhere. Purple squirrels-love that!
Zooming out a bit further to really see the forest for the trees, though, most of the rise in inequality (which began in the 1970s following to Powell Manifesto, and then accelerated to warp speed due to Reaganonmics, the decimation of organized labor, and the triumph of the big banks) greatly pre-dates the rise in online dating. People choosing to date and marry people more and more like themselves is at least as much of a *consequence* of an increasing rich-poor gap as it is a cause. Even if online dating were to cease to exist tomorrow, the root causes of inequality (i.e. an economic system rigged by the oligarchy) would remain unchanged, and thus the problem would remain largely unchanged as well.
about "the root causes of inequality would remain unchanged etc..."
of course, indeed I wrote:
"almost always technology, especially digital technology, just enables or accelerates stuff (good or bad, doesn't matter) that humans were already doing or were begging to do anyway."
Thanks for sharing the post, inside and outside Substack
Great perspectives on the elusive what's-wrong-with-hamster-wheel-living: lots of motion and energy but you never get anywhere. Purple squirrels-love that!
Thanks, and thanks for sharing the post, inside and outside Substack
Zooming out a bit further to really see the forest for the trees, though, most of the rise in inequality (which began in the 1970s following to Powell Manifesto, and then accelerated to warp speed due to Reaganonmics, the decimation of organized labor, and the triumph of the big banks) greatly pre-dates the rise in online dating. People choosing to date and marry people more and more like themselves is at least as much of a *consequence* of an increasing rich-poor gap as it is a cause. Even if online dating were to cease to exist tomorrow, the root causes of inequality (i.e. an economic system rigged by the oligarchy) would remain unchanged, and thus the problem would remain largely unchanged as well.
about "the root causes of inequality would remain unchanged etc..."
of course, indeed I wrote:
"almost always technology, especially digital technology, just enables or accelerates stuff (good or bad, doesn't matter) that humans were already doing or were begging to do anyway."
Thanks for sharing the post, inside and outside Substack