In the USA we have everything but this - you can rent an assistant, a concierge, a translator, a wedding planner, a prostitute. But not a friend. Why have we not thought of this?
There's this message about true friendship & true love neither of which can be bought. I think it's pretty strong in Western culture. That's why we also don't rent spouses and even renting a prostitute has pretty bad vibe.
> you can rent a prostitute. But not a friend. Why have we not thought of this?
Escorts don't just do sex work. In addition to sex, this is a good deal of what escorting is, depending on who one's clients are and what they are looking for.
I really wish this for you: May you never be lonely enough in your life to consider something like this, but if you ever find yourself at such a point in your life, then at that point, the weird feeling you would feel when pondering the dilemma of someone who would pay for friendship, that feeling is called empathy.
