Author: Hunter Friesen

“Materialists” opens in the Paleolithic period of the Stone Age. A caveman brings tools and flowers to the woman he loves, hoping they’ll be enough to earn her affection. We may think love gets purer the further back in time you go, but there has always been a business angle. Dowries, negotiations and aligning kingdoms were the old ways of forming a union. Now there’s an algorithm for that, loaded with statistics like height, income and political views. And for those who are more serious (or desperate) and have the funds, there are services like Adore, which assign a personal…

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