Today, a whole legion of women figured out that they should just marry a rich guy. That is their Big Plan. But, most guys reach their peak earnings or wealth in their 50s — even as an inheritance. No, we want someone who is wealthy in their 30s. And, not fat, or with a pale pasty complexion from working indoors all day, or under six feet tall. We already know this is pretty rare:
$300,000/year is not “wealthy.” It is upper-middle class. You aren’t going to have a yacht or vacation home on $300,000 a year, or at least shouldn’t. You might drive a Lexus, but even that might be a stretch with two cars. A lot of people at $300,000/yr live mostly hand-to-mouth. Using the 3x Income standard for houses, it means you could afford a $900,000 house, if you don’t lose your job. Not two $900,000 houses. If you don’t live hand-to-mouth, and max out your 401(k) at 20%, and then set aside another 10% of income to savings of various sorts, and pay taxes, there isn’t really so much left over.
Nevertheless, after all this, and “settling” for someone merely upper-middle-class, a woman still has a 0.039% chance of getting the guy, right?
Nope. Because, such a man, if he marries at all, is likely to marry a woman like himself.
Here is a group portrait of an investment team at KKR Private Equity:
Now subtract the women, the men over 40, and the married men. You’ve got maybe five men, all of them under 6 feet tall, and most of them with the typical “academic geek in front of a computer all day” physiognomy. I see one guy that women wouldn’t swipe left on within two seconds (second from far right). Also, since these men can presumably marry who they like, we have to assume that the men who want to get married are already married, leaving only those who would rather not.
I think we all know by now that these “marry a rich guy” women are just cosplaying, while getting plowed by players and fuckboys.
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