Hi, the topic is somewhat related to the holidays, because it's about relationships with people. Recently, I admit that I was pretty harsh because a friend broke up with his girlfriend and the first thing he did was go on Tinder, saying the goal was just to talk to people, vent, etc., because of the anonymity or whatever. I called him desperate because he's looking for connections online. This led to him getting offended and only pointing out that I should shut up since I don't have a girlfriend and I'm not looking. However, I thought to myself that, actually, corporations are increasingly controlling us, which is why I’m getting more and more repulsed by apps like Tinder:

Thermomix - recipes paid via subscription

YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, or X - entertainment content and other posts

Pornhub - erotica

Tinder - soulmate

And I wonder, it's not even about us objectifying ourselves with these random systems, but rather a bigger problem: who knows when Tinder or similar companies might get money from the pharmaceutical industry to secretly adjust algorithms to match people with genetic flaws. People may not even know about it, but it might resonate specifically when matching certain individuals, and the pharmaceutical industry would profit from sick societies. Another issue is that we’re increasingly being pushed into a subscription system, and who knows when we’ll reach extreme situations, or when some company might come up with a crazy idea, like offering leg amputations with subscriptions for mobility, such as a premium package to be able to run 18 km per hour or something like that.

I admit that I see Bitcoin as something that could stop such actions, but I might have an illusion of that because, by nature, people who study cryptography tend to be skeptical of corporations and would slow down such actions, and they would share my view.

Another fact is that I’m a bit disgusted by the idea of searching for my other half in my area because I live in quite an insular place, with many people from my family living here. My mother’s and father’s families meet in three places over the last four generations (thank God, without any incestuous connections). And especially the idea of doing it through apps that often have distance filters, where these filters usually favor proximity. In my case, the farther away, the better.