Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

The soulmate manifesto

“Love economics: an analytical model of interpersonal dependency.”

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  1. strange_complex

    The soulmate manifesto

    “Love economics: an analytical model of interpersonal dependency.”

    Eep! I don’t think I like that page at all. These are two of the tips they offer to reduce the risk of being dumped:

    • Keep lover’s search cost for another love high by limiting his/her social network size.
    • Lower lover’s attractiveness by undermining his/her financial success.

    I unfortunately once had a boyfriend who behaved a lot like that, and it was extremely unpleasant. I still regard it as one of the lowest, sickest forms of relationship behaviour.

    Thanks for doing my meme, by the way! I’ve looked at your interests before and wondered what ‘jfdi’ meant, but I like it now I know!

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    • neilh

      Yeah, it was written by an economist, someone who can’t think of anything except in terms of profit and loss….

      For some reason I keep thinking its the kind of thing Emerson would come up with.

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  2. neilh

    Fascinating in the same way a car crash is. And its always nice to think that no matter how useless I am when it comes to any kind of emotional attachment that there are people who ‘get it’ even less than I do…as it were.

    Depressingly I fear this is not a joke, though it may have started as one. Indeed, having met people like this I must confess to taking a little too much glee in taunting them at parties….you’ve got to get your kicks where you can.

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