• j4k3@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      May but maybe not. Growing up with a friend of mine, he used to do stuff like that with girls he liked. He had a rigid schedule, text length, call, and dates routine he planned in advance. He treated himself like a commodity and tried to maximize positive value without becoming cloy. He had a strong intuitive understanding that people most want what they cannot have, but remains on their mind most. He had the discipline to stick to his plan too. It would not surprise me if that was his car.

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          3 months ago

          His wife is WAY out if his league. If it wasn’t for that, I’d tend to agree. He has been super successful in life doing sales and marketing, so I wouldn’t buck the idea. It isn’t me, but it is an interesting tool to be aware of in life.

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            3 months ago

            It sounds horrifying to me still to be honest. I dunno how his wives being hot (is that what we are talking about?) really changes that.

            I just don’t see how the „success“ alleviates the self-commodification and how regimenting your whole life based on some ideas around extracting highest value sounds like a pleasant life?

            But sure, if you do relationships to extract value out of it, then maybe that is a reasonable way to go at it and maybe you even get together with pretty people that makes it worth it for you. if this was me I would still ask myself what the fuck am I doing this for, but maybe thats just my existentialism talking.

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              3 months ago

              Taking one cherry picked metric as a anything more is insane and your lack of reasoning scope is appalling. Please block me as I have done you. I find interaction with you unpleasant and undesirable.

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                3 months ago

                Sure,

                I guess Im sorry if my phrasing made that feel very combative, which is not how I intended it. I didn‘t know it was common courtesy to tell people you block them though, so have a good one.