No Love For You

People search for what they don't have. The impoverished desire the wealth others have spent their lives earning, so when you hear someone talking about wealth redistribution you can be certain the speaker enviously lusts for wealth someone else has earned.

Likewise, the emotionally neglected shack up with strangers -- first in a pathetic hope of being loved, and then settling for faking it so they can extract money from a hapless mark.

You won't find love by hooking up, and social norms prohibit discovery of love between even long-term hookups, under penalty of immediate separation because of clinginess.

Hooking up is based on unrealistic demands while simultaneously containing a poison pill so it can never transition to a relationship even when that becomes the obviously best mutual course.

"I would wager that if an average citizen from Athens of 1000 BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions, with a good memory, a broad range of ideas, and a clear-sighted view of important issues. Furthermore, I would guess that he or she would be among the most emotionally stable of our friends and colleagues.”
[Human intelligence peaked thousands of years ago]

The hookup culture is an experiment. In other news, humans are basically the same today as 10,000 years ago, except for possessing lower intelligence. Nevertheless, even dumber humans retain the same needs as ever, so fighting against nature is done at your own peril.