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by ALittleLight 384 days ago
One big challenge I see with this is that it will attract people who struggle to make friends. A club of lonely men seems like a place I would be embarrassed to go to and hesitant to make friends at. Usually friends have more to recommend them than loneliness.
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That's exactly how meetups always felt to me.
In economics, this is known as the problem of adverse selection.