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Here are some good analogies which explain male sexlessness without blaming women as we are often accused of. And plenty of people here clearly do blame women, but that is not socially acceptable in real life.
Technology centralizes demand into a winner-take-most situation.
Dating apps center all demand onto Chad. A 30 year old, handsome, successful man in a city can't easily meet college girls without dating apps. Now he can. He and she aren't being wrong or irrational, but their choices are clearly bad for lower status men.
The internet has been killing print journalism for decades, everyone knows that. People aren't bad or irrational for reading news online or placing ads on Craigslist. Newspapers make their money from ads. Nowadays, if you want to sell your car or get a roommate, you won't go to the local newspaper, you would go to craigslist. Chad is craigslist. We are small town newspapers.
Amazon has a huge chunk of the commerce pie. Chad is Amazon. We are small mom and pop stores.
Cheap travel (AirBnB, and cheap airlines) make it so British people can frequently go on weekend jaunts to Barcelona, Amsterdam, Rome, etc. British people aren't bad or irrational for doing this. But this means that British seaside towns who once depended on tourism now get nothing and are now ghost towns. Chad is Barcelona. We are unpopular British seaside towns. A lot of the popular cities, including Barcelona, are realizing that overtourism is a problem and are trying to decrease it.
Technology centralizes demand into a winner-take-most situation.
Dating apps center all demand onto Chad. A 30 year old, handsome, successful man in a city can't easily meet college girls without dating apps. Now he can. He and she aren't being wrong or irrational, but their choices are clearly bad for lower status men.
The internet has been killing print journalism for decades, everyone knows that. People aren't bad or irrational for reading news online or placing ads on Craigslist. Newspapers make their money from ads. Nowadays, if you want to sell your car or get a roommate, you won't go to the local newspaper, you would go to craigslist. Chad is craigslist. We are small town newspapers.
Amazon has a huge chunk of the commerce pie. Chad is Amazon. We are small mom and pop stores.
Cheap travel (AirBnB, and cheap airlines) make it so British people can frequently go on weekend jaunts to Barcelona, Amsterdam, Rome, etc. British people aren't bad or irrational for doing this. But this means that British seaside towns who once depended on tourism now get nothing and are now ghost towns. Chad is Barcelona. We are unpopular British seaside towns. A lot of the popular cities, including Barcelona, are realizing that overtourism is a problem and are trying to decrease it.
