cshapiro- it’s not about worth it or not – but maybe i’m coming from a different place than you. where i come from, there are people who really do not have a lot of money. if a guy spends only $10.00 on every date (which counting parking, drinks, etc. is much less than usual) and goes out with lots of girls several times each (as many, many do) – he can easily be spending thousands of dollars – if he’s learning, and his family isn’t wealthy, where is that money coming from? and wouldn’t if he had any money, rather use it to live on or for necessities?
he can’t be cheap and take a subway instead of borrowing or renting a car and he shouldn’t skimp on some drink, but to spend thousands of dollars that he doesn’t have on people he will never see again, seems to me to be pretty unfair.