I talked to a friend of mine who was telling me, “When I set my Tinder radius to 1 mile, just around the university, and I see the bios of the women, a lot of their profiles say things like ‘poly’ or ‘keeping it casual’ – basically, they’re not interested in anything too serious.” He says something like half of them have something like that in their bio. And then he said, “But when I expand the radius on my Tinder to five miles, to include the rest of the city and the more run-down areas beyond the university bubble, half the women are single moms.” And basically, the luxury beliefs of the former group, the educated group, trickled down and ended up having this outsize effect on the people who are less fortunate, who don’t have the [social and] economic capital of the people who can afford that belief.
An interview with Rob Henderson, coiner of the term luxury beliefs.
In the words of a famous or maybe not so famous persons words?
“SUCKS TO BE YOU!”
You need to lower your standards.
My last time of being single was scary as the women vultures were circling that were looking for anyone that was on two legs at the Legion…
Theodore Dalrymple, call your office. You don’t have to live in a hut to know that to make something of yourself you have to get off your butt.