College students are increasingly finding ‘sugar daddies’ preferable to loans
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What seems far more likely is that, like every "matchmaking" website, there is a majority of accounts that are made up. They are obviously motivated to tout the number of young college kids in their marketing to attract the money, ie sugar daddies, to their website.
Here in Europe, definitely not the case. Sometimes there are blatant, obviously spam accounts that send links to porn and scam sites, i don't mean these. But other than that, i have yet to see an obviously fake profile being in Czech Republic or Belarus (here in Cyprus they are sort of a thing, but in a different way - people who don't really live here but looking for a man to pull them out of the sh*thole countries they live in, like Ukraine or Moldova, but they are still real people - i know coz i dated many of them). Why would that be any different in the U.S.? Are women for some reasons reluctant to join?
There are plenty of stories like this one: https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2019/match-group...
> Are women for some reasons reluctant to join?
Anecdotally, I would say yes because most women have a lot more prospects than most men do and are already receiving way more attention from men than they want, so they simply have little need for it in comparison to men. Or at least, when they do go in matchmaking sites they receive many many requests so are “taken” very quickly while most men do not get any, so women cycle through the service much faster than men do.
But why does it work that way? Men are more interested in relationship than women? Isn't it supposed to naturally be other way around?
I didn’t check these particularly hard for quality, but quick google search:
from https://www.elitedaily.com/social-news/men-women-tinder-expe...
> After one day, Brian accrued 269 matches and had a mere 28 messages in his inbox; whereas, Briana had 701 matches and 378 messages waiting for her reply.
Also:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/women-men-...
https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/3j4r6d/why_do_you_...
For what it’s worth, I live in Western Europe and my experience is similar to that of America.
This is, of course, not any kind of valid basis for the current status quo and in a sane setup lenders would either have to be much pickier about who they lend to or require tangible collateral.
Student loan interest rates range from 6.6% to 7.6%.
If a percentage of student loans were allowed to default, then student loan rates would have to increase much more for the lenders to break even. Hopefully the Fed would consider bailing out the students like they did with the big banks but I wouldn't bet on it.