[tedks]

Are you able to date successfully as an unattractive person without Tinder?

Maybe in the future Tinder should segment its users better so that attractive people are presented to other attractive people, and the plebs stay in their own pool, but it seems more appropriate to just abandon anyone without the resources to make themselves attractive to solitude.

After all, there soon won't be enough jobs for everyone anyway; the growing acceptance of polyamory combined with the divorce (pun not intended) of marriage from its religious basis means we can expect polygamy and polyandry to be legal within our lifetime; as more and more of the world becomes hyper-unequal, why do we expect dating to be any different?

Of course, this is a totally unrelated tangent to the article, which was about the card swiping interface and the advantages therein, but let's not expect an unequal world to be equal in some respects.

[xiaoma]

An unattractive photo does not always mean an unattractive person.

[eru]

And vice versa.

[bru_]

I hope to join you guys in your fantasy world one day

[eru]

Never heard of MySpace angles?

You seem bitter. So here's some drive-by unwanted advice. I assume you are male:

- Hit the gym, lift weights. Eat enough to be non-scrawny. (Or lose weight, if you are currently fat.)

- Acquire currency---as a HN lurker you should at least be able to talk your way into a tech job.

- Get someone knowledgeable to help with your outfit.

- Get some nice pictures of yourself. Either practice the art of the selfie until you are good, ask a knowledgeable friend, or pay someone.

[bru_]

Haha thanks buddy. I interpreted what they were saying as "looks don't matter", which is obviously false

[eru]

Oh, OK. Looks do matter, but looks are not set in stone.

(And since they are not, you don't need to feel too bad about judging somebody by something they have at least some influence over.)