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A Boring Dystopia
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Then stop going out for dates. Who convinced you that capitalism has to be a third wheel on your dates? Y'all too dependent on market capitalism to provide for you.
Where are they gonna go? We destroyed most of our third places, or made them so expensive to extract maximum profits.
Dinner is expensive, movies are expensive, small friendly local shops have been disappearing in favor of sterile corporate ones.
For a lot of people the only option would then be a home, which doesn't work great for a lot of reasons.
I legitimately forgot how bad it is in America. I'm like why don't you take the train to somewhere for a nice walk? I forgot you guys can't really do those things with your infrastructure.
Non-matinee theater prices aren't that bad. Just don't load up on giant ass overpriced popcorn and sodas.
Coffee dates are a thing. They're expensive for coffee, but if you break a hundred at a coffee shop, you're probably going to the hospital.
Public parks exists. Ice skating rinks aren't that expensive. Book stores.
Ice cream!
Pizza places have somehow stayed inexpensive.
Hell, the gold standard first date: getting a beer at a bar is not that expensive, still.
If your only idea for a date is a high end fancy ass multi course dinner, with cocktails, then yeah, you're gonna have issues...
Where the hell do you live that you can claim this? Your pizza comment was also kind of funny as most places near me are honestly pretty expensive. I guess you could go to Little Caesars or something lol
My first date with my husband, we went for a walk at a park..
Edit: whoever replied I have you blocked already, so have fun, I cant see your comments.
Yeah, my partner of 10+ years went on multiple dates to museums, parks, and botanic gardens in the first month. We ate delicious Mexican food after, all super cheap.
This was great because now it’s a tradition for us to go to museums on every vacation.
aw I love that
Be good company and time spent anywhere becomes worthwhile. It has to start somewhere or capitalism will continue to price us out of even the simplest of human experiences.
"Hey baby, why don't you come upstairs so we can avoid the capitalist machine of going out?"