[HN Gopher] Keynes on the influence of furniture on love
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       Keynes on the influence of furniture on love
        
       Author : magnifique
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2024-10-02 00:00 UTC (23 hours ago)
        
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       | kylehotchkiss wrote:
       | I once met somebody on the train who lives in the Bay Area and
       | told me that her dating experiences in the area with tech guys
       | included more than one "guy who just has a mattress on the
       | floor". If there's any takeaway from the 15 seconds you spent
       | looking at this article and the comments, you should buy a bed
       | frame. Any bedframe. Just take the mattress off the floor.
       | 
       | If you're on this site, you can afford one. Extra credit: the
       | bottom of your mattress won't be all gross.
        
         | swatcoder wrote:
         | I wouldn't suggest people "hack" self-care/hygeine habits like
         | nesting to avoid turning off some prospective date or hookup.
         | 
         | The lady on the train isn't _literally_ getting turned off by
         | the mattress resting on the floor. They 're getting turned off
         | because the image they see represents someone deeply alienated
         | from the instinctive desire to attend to one's space (nest).
         | 
         | The one neat trick of putting a mattress on the frame doesn't
         | change that. It just leaves the visitor more lacking for words
         | to describe what's unsettling them.
         | 
         | If you're just a 22 year old tech bro all in on your career and
         | are proud of your aescetism, live as sparsely as you want.
         | 
         | At some point, though, you may find that taking an interest in
         | your surroundings makes you feel better and gives you more
         | resiliency, and that people respond positively to what _that_
         | represents.
         | 
         | But don't bother cheating your way there. It will must confuse
         | you when somebody shows up and doesn't fall for the hack.
        
           | dkga wrote:
           | Excellent point. And it doesn't need to be much. If a person
           | is really minimalistic, even a single piece of good-taste
           | furniture would suffice.
        
             | kylehotchkiss wrote:
             | Tired: mattress on floor
             | 
             | Wired: Eames chair next to mattress on floor.
             | 
             | Thank you both for the Wednesday laughs.
        
         | beAbU wrote:
         | Steve Jobs famously started out like that, a mattress and a
         | MASSIVE stereo.
         | 
         | Maybe they try to emulate their hero?
        
           | lm28469 wrote:
           | It's like only wearing grey t-shirts thinking it'll make you
           | the next Zuckerberg...
        
       | engineer_22 wrote:
       | Funnily enough, Keynes was a pedophile
        
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