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Rich Idiots Are Paying $1 Million For A Chance At Love

This bizarre new scheme also raises questions about our culture’s ultra intense selectivity towards mates.

Dean Brooks
5 min readFeb 6, 2025
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I think it was the Beatles who sang about how “money can’t buy me love.” Well, clearly that’s very wrong, stupid, and backwards thinking. Because now there’s a new matchmaking service called Three Day Rule in Los Angeles catering to ultra high net worth clients. The price tag — one million dollars.

Now, you would think with a cost that high that maybe only a handful of people would express interest. You’d be wrong again, as over 100 people applied. The service only plans to take on three people, however. Which means hypothetically — and this is for all you side hustlers out there — that you could TOTALLY take advantage of the remaining 97+ with your own million dollar dating scheme. That’s more than $97 million left on the table. Good luck.

Man, here I am thinking paying a dating app $50 a month for “Platinum Level” is outrageously egregious and akin to buying into an obvious pyramid scheme. Turns out I’m woefully underestimating the willingness some people have to burn cash for empty promises.

So, what do you get for a million bucks anyway? According to the service’s CEO, Adam Cohen-Aslatei:

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Dean Brooks
Dean Brooks

Written by Dean Brooks

Novelist. I write about anything and I'm right about everything.

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