Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

Post by cherry_tree » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 8:05 AM UTC

potato3732842 wrote: post #14

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #7

I once met somebody on the train who lives in the Bay Area and told me that her dating experiences in the area with tech guys included more than one "guy who just has a mattress on the floor". If there's any takeaway from the 15 seconds you spent looking at this article and the comments, you should buy a bed frame. Any bedframe. Just take the mattress off the floor. If you're on this site, you can afford one. Extra c…

The other side of that coin is that if she can't tolerate mattress on floor to access tech money then maybe the other guy dodged a bullet too depending on what he's after. I found myself turning down the class intentionally a lot because my current income/wealth level exceeds the norm for my background at my age and I don't want to live with someone who doesn't share my social/cultural norms. It reminds me of a passa…

Post by saagarjha » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 8:51 AM UTC

beAbU wrote: post #9

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #7

I once met somebody on the train who lives in the Bay Area and told me that her dating experiences in the area with tech guys included more than one "guy who just has a mattress on the floor". If there's any takeaway from the 15 seconds you spent looking at this article and the comments, you should buy a bed frame. Any bedframe. Just take the mattress off the floor. If you're on this site, you can afford one. Extra c…

Steve Jobs famously started out like that, a mattress and a MASSIVE stereo. Maybe they try to emulate their hero?

Post by imtringued » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 9:20 AM UTC

4gotunameagain wrote: post #32

wegfawefgawefg wrote: post #25

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It is simply a matter of utility. Bed frames do not provide much utility, and cost money, which seperates me from my early retirement. Tech bros are probably making this utilitarian decision more consciously than the woman was considering her own mate evaluation feature detectors. A more intelligent, less shallow woman would have connected the dots. Had the male been percieved as sufficiently physically attractive sh…

I honestly cannot tell whether this is an intentional troll meme attempt. This is just too good to be true. A more intelligent, less shallow woman [would've seen past the lack of a bed frame] [bed frames] separate me from my early retirement. ahahahh so you will retire 15 minutes earlier after a lifetime of sleeping on the floor, what an intelligent trade-off

Post by foldr » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 10:25 AM UTC

4gotunameagain wrote: post #32

wegfawefgawefg wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is simply a matter of utility. Bed frames do not provide much utility, and cost money, which seperates me from my early retirement. Tech bros are probably making this utilitarian decision more consciously than the woman was considering her own mate evaluation feature detectors. A more intelligent, less shallow woman would have connected the dots. Had the male been percieved as sufficiently physically attractive sh…

I honestly cannot tell whether this is an intentional troll meme attempt. This is just too good to be true. A more intelligent, less shallow woman [would've seen past the lack of a bed frame] [bed frames] separate me from my early retirement. ahahahh so you will retire 15 minutes earlier after a lifetime of sleeping on the floor, what an intelligent trade-off

Post by pjc50 » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 11:53 AM UTC

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #13

dkga wrote: post #11

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Excellent point. And it doesn’t need to be much. If a person is really minimalistic, even a single piece of good-taste furniture would suffice.

Tired: mattress on floor Wired: Eames chair next to mattress on floor. Thank you both for the Wednesday laughs.