Read a tweet today about why Gen Z men are not "manning up" and cold approaching women. It's obviously the fear of getting your life ruined, not the fear of rejection.
This is established fact for virtually anyone who's ever thought about the subject (besides NPCs).
But my thought is even if you somehow took away the risk of ruining your life, there are a lot of problems with expecting men to find relationships by walking into the buzzsaw of cold approaches over and over. First of all, it kind of hurts to get turned down based on your physical appearance, and the appearance of 80% of men is inadequate on its own. You can make up for that with banter and flirting. But is it realistic to expect every man, or even most men, to develop the level of game needed to pick up girls off the street?
Second, most attractive women you see on the street already have a boyfriend. Not a meme boyfriend, an actual dude. Now it is true that if you're Timothee Chalamet you can probably turn half of those women into cheating hoes, but why would you want to given that you're going for a serious relationship? In the end it's just very awkward for both parties to go through the script again and again. "Sorry, I have a boyfriend." [forced smile] "Oh, my bad sorry"
In the past women were somewhat more likely to take cold approaches as a compliment. Disclaimer: somewhat more likely. Today the infinite choice of online dating has more than filled women's thirst to be admired, so getting approached in public mostly makes them annoyed for the same reason that most people prefer to be emailed rather than called.
There is a way for guys who aren't male models to be attractive to women: get to know them in a mutual community so their appreciation of your positive features overcomes the "ick" and "he's not a kpop boy band member" factors that they initially notice. People can also figure out who's in a relationship and who's looking without embarrassing themselves. This form of courtship, coincidentally, has been attacked by each successive sexual revolution.
I'm generalizing in several places, but I doubt that most relationships are going to happen through cold approach in a healthy society, whether that's in person or on a Jewish dating app.
Easy travel and communication has been a disaster for civilization. We are meant to be in limited communities with finite populations. Part of maturing is men and women realizing that if they don't want to die alone, they will have to compromise at some point. Wasting your 20s moving to the big city and trying to carve out a livelihood and build a community from scratch is nightmarish.
Bullshit. Easy travel and communication are GREAT for civilization. If that's what we actually had.
We don't. We have a billionaire owned set of communications platforms that are primarily used for censorship and manipulation. There's a reason the CIA spent so much money and time making sure Facebook became a thing.
For a brief moment in the 90s, you could see it, we had the power and they didn't own it all yet, small businesses had power, women and men were getting together like never before, and the voice of the people could actually be heard.
That really hurt Peter Theil, Eric Schmidt and Elon Musks's feelings, and their chances at profits, so they swooped in on government contracts and rigged it all into the fucked up mess we have today.
Future generations will never know what they lost. Those who knew the sound of the internet will tell the tales of the golden age but no one will believe them in time.
Even if the billionaire class disappeared over night, I don't think people in general have the discipline to stay the fuck home. My home town has doubled in population twice in the last 20 years. That's not natural, and absolutely cannot be adapted to. You aren't meant to pick up roots and wander hither and yon. Cheap travel has been eroding the concept of community for a century. The dotcom bubble was not a point of light.
If they have a good enough job and prospects to build or buy their own home they tend to stay in it. You're missing the forest for the trees here.
The point of cheap travel is tourism. The overwhelming majority of people are not using cheap travel to immigrate or find a new city to stay in.
Who said it was? People forget that was in 2000. Not every boom is sustainable, who cares if it is, what matters is, did most of the wealth stay in the hands of the people?