This chapter examines the evolving landscape of online dating, focusing on user discontent and the declining engagement rates of major dating apps. It highlights the rise of niche platforms and offers insights on adapting to shifting relationship preferences and improving user experiences.
The rich world is experiencing record migrant flows—and the attendant social upheaval. Finding immigration policies that are not economically ruinous is damnably hard. Our three-part series starts to unpack why people are so fed up with the big dating apps (11:10). And the head-spinning history of how break(danc)ing became an Olympic sport (18:44).
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