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1. missedthecue · 1790812270 · focus · HN ↗

   Begging economists and dating app designers to understand that the problems with the dating market are not a matching problem but a clearing problem. It's very tempting to think that if one could devise a sufficiently clever algorithm they could solve these problems but it's simply barking up the wrong tree.

   1. dotcoma · 1790813692 · focus · HN ↗

      So why, in your opinion, do people not finalise the deal?

      1. missedthecue · 1790813792 · focus · HN ↗

         They do not want to.

         More specifically, they would rather be single than pair with any of the options that are realistically available to them. Hence, the market fails to clear.

         1. dotcoma · 1790814430 · focus · HN ↗

            I agree. I sure hope their government will not step in at that point and offer too many incentives to get married and disincentives to stay single, but I would not rule out this is exactly part of the plan...

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