/212/ Three Articles: Middle-Class Anxieties
Added 2021-08-31 07:01:00 +0000 UTCOn net-zero, CCP nanny state, and optimised dating.
We start off discussing the HBO series "The White Lotus" before tackling three articles on middle-class anxieties: climate change and pressures on UK living standards; the Chinese state's crackdown on private tutoring; and women's attempt to avoid crappy men through 'Female Dating Strategy'.
Articles:
- Boris Johnson’s push for net zero plunged into chaos, Edward Malnick & Emma Gatten, The Telegraph (attached in patreon)
- China’s nanny state: why Xi is cracking down on gaming and private tutors, Tom Mitchell & Thomas Hale, FT (attached in patreon)
- ‘Sales funnels’ and high-value men: the rise of strategic dating, Katie Cunningham, The Guardian
Comments
Seems there’s something with modern dating that % young men can’t find a gf and then women in 30s are also left scrambling. Wonder if there is a dating app equivalent of the game for young men now.
Gabo Goff
2021-09-06 20:33:02 +0000 UTCRE: the dating article: please bring Eva Illouz on the pod.
Bernhard Pirkl
2021-09-03 12:49:17 +0000 UTC
