&gt; You don&#x27;t have a safety net when you get dumped. You know, if your girlfriend dumps you, you don&#x27;t get another girl to give you blowjobs, because otherwise you might get depressed and suicidal. You&#x27;re expected to figure it out on your own and you might not do it - you might end up lonely, without dates and maybe even commit suicide because of that.<p>So maybe think outside your own box and figure out if there&#x27;s any cheap social policy that would improve the lot of such people? I come up with: legalize prostitution, shorten copyright terms for pornography. <i>Maybe</i> lower emphasis on marriage and greater acceptance of polyamory, though that could go both ways. Try to culturally de-emphasize sex, and provide more life paths where singledom is accepted or expected (e.g. I&#x27;ve heard it argued that monasteries used to serve this function).<p>&gt; So, why not hold wage earners to the same standard?<p>Huh? That&#x27;s backwards. If giving everyone a decent dating partner was as easy as raising taxes a little bit and subsidising a few government-run services, of course we&#x27;d do it.