[tomtimtall]

Interesting experiment. Traditionally when people reach the point of wanting to pay money to get a wife, they travel to some less well off country and buy a wife from there.

[klipt]

You say that like spending money on marriage is a bad thing. But effectively, if you marry someone who earns less than you, you're paying money to maintain that marriage for the rest of your life anyway.

[OJFord]

Not in any obvious definite way if you're both above sustaining yourselves. I.e. if there is discretionary money (sourced from both parties) then what you say is only true if the decisions/compromises not in your favour outweigh your portion of the discretionary funds.

(...I don't want to spend my life thinking like this.)

[MiddleEndian]

This is not necessarily true, beyond the fact that you must pay to live no matter what. If you have one person making, say, $300k/year and another making $60k/year, together you share a bedroom, share a fridge, share a stove, share a living room, etc. Your total costs could lower than they would be otherwise.

[hellbannedguy]

Yea---but do you want to go through life wondering if it's a comfortable life, or he truely likes you?

[tomtimtall]

Obviously, empirically, an extremely large group of people do yea.

[b112]

But online dating sites are just that, pay money, hope to get a wife.

[cassonmars]

Being on the other side of that though is: join app, wade through many low quality matches because the ratio is like 10:1, become extremely choosy because every right swipe is a match. It produces really bad psychological effects for both cohorts.