The Amazon Shopping View of Relationships

Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
3 min readApr 26, 2024

Today’s dating market is increasingly becoming commoditised, and dating is very similar to Amazon’s shopping site or another online shopping platform.

You get a photo of the product, in this case, a person, and you get their preferences, hobbies, location, and a brief description.

This gives people the illusion of getting a date that is as convenient as ordering a product from Amazon and getting it as next-day delivery.

This also cheapens the value of having a relationship because it gives men and women the…

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Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

I have been writing from 2014 to the present day; my writing is focused on history, politics, culture, geopolitics and other related topics.