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PREVIEW: Brokenomics | The Economics of Dating and Marriage

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dan and Connor consider the most expensive decision a young man will ever make: his partner. Are the economics of dating and marriage improving or deteriorating?

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Brokonomics now this episode has had a couple of working titles we originally to go with Hoflation

0:06.7

decided that was a bit disrespectful so that one has been bined and we're not even going to mention it

0:11.2

So we we are either going to end up on Brokonomics women or the

0:15.8

economics of dating and marriage or whatever it is. A quick note on this one. It is

0:20.3

primarily going to be coming at the economics of the dating and relationship thing

0:26.4

from a men's perspective.

0:28.9

Please don't be offended if you are a woman because even though we talk about how utterly awful a lot of Western modern women have become

0:35.6

The fact that you are watching this probably means that that doesn't apply to you so

0:41.6

Good for you, but but yes there might be just a tiny tiny bit of criticism for what

0:49.3

the West is currently churning out but like I say, don't take that personally.

0:53.0

Right, so why am I doing the Brokonomics on women and dating and sex and all that sort of stuff?

1:00.9

I think there is a very good argument that men's sex drive is the basis of all economic

1:07.4

progress and I'm not even joking about that at all actually.

1:12.1

It is everything you see around you is because a man has

1:15.0

decided to try and make himself more attractive to a woman has decided to go out

1:20.5

and do something. I can give you a good example of this. When I moved down to

1:24.0

Winchester from London for various complicated reasons I had to go like six months before and I

1:30.0

sort of basically rented a house before we could sort of do house moons and stuff like that.

1:35.0

And my furniture consisted of a sofa, a chair, a computer desk and a TV and basically one said

1:42.1

a cutlery and I was perfectly happy for the entire six months. and basically

1:43.6

happy for the entire six months and men genuinely live like this and don't see a problem

1:47.8

whereas if you see my house now it is bloody soft furnishings and

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