Back when cars were a luxury item, affordable only to the wealthy just as horses were, a "date" for most people involved walking with the girl you liked down to the fair, or to the riverside, or busing to the beach. Now, because of the explosion of post-war luxury, we've created a dating market where even the least desirable women expect you to drive them to a nice restaurant and pay for the meal, at the very least. Women being women, most of them will not moderate those expectations, even if it really does end up being the case that most men can't afford it. Women will just compete for an ever-shrinking pool of upper and upper-middle class men who can actually afford to treat them the way movies and television and social media tell them they should be treated, and other men will be left to Go Their Own Way regardless of what they want.