Dragonfruit Finance

Some people will continue to fall in love in online chat rooms, others in bars and clubs, but I’m envisioning a Cambrian Explosion of relationships sparking up in credit card-sponsored airport lounges. Young, attractive people with their matching athletic clothes and their sleek carryon luggage. Add the joy of free drinks and ceiling-high windows and you may as well have standardized prenup templates as placemats. And this isn’t to make fun of anyone. I know that once my husband and I begin to travel more, I will try to convince him that exclusive lounge access will make sense. And to make matters more privileged, I want kids that play badminton and other low-impact sports, I want to have our future dogs professionally trained to be off leash, and I want to be someone’s plus one to their overpriced country club. I’m as basic as it gets. But as I peruse promotional material, I can’t help but imagine airport lounge access as a starting point for becoming a less compassionate member of so...