1. I too am puzzled by You-Got-Mail-gate because @meaganmday's reading of the film strikes me as the common sense one. In fact I remember making similar arguments nearly 20 years ago!
https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1319361687120695296
2. Here's a review I wrote in 2002 about a diverting but forgettable comedy (Brown Sugar) where I bring up You Got Mail and the hidden economic subtext of nearly all romantic comedies. 
3. Almost all romantic comedies have an economic subtext because marriage is a union of economic units (households) as well an emotional union. Jane Austen, the greatest of all writers of romantic comedies, knew this & was explicit about the financial status of her characters!
4. The deeper roots of a film like You Got Mail are in the traditional binary in fiction between the man as unregulated activity (whether sexual or economic) and woman as the domesticating force, using emotion to temper grasping appetite.
5. It's weird that my economic reading of romantic comedies ran -- without controversy -- in a very conservative newspaper (the National Post) while a similar argument appearing in a socialist magazine gets people upset.
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