What is the difference between a gold digger and a materialistic person?

[desidoll]

Do you think these two have similarities or they are totally different?

[myspacemybroke]

Materialistic: just generally more shallow and object oriented, but with no particular direction in life per this classification.

Gold digger: someone who also has material obsession, but is directed in their desires and set themselves up/uses people for the sake of gaining expensive possessions/money.

Basically the gold digger just has a bit more motivation towards that lifestyle as appose to simply being a shallow individual.

[martyfellow]

Gold digger is a little old fashioned, but more accurate. Materialistic is a more literary and PC term. But they're describing all the corporate groupies out there, either way.

[sweet_18]

They're not totally different, but there is a difference. You can choose to date someone with money because you want that type of lifestyle. Doesn't necessarily mean that you are concerned with buying a bunch of sh*t all the time.

[Freetobe007]

A gold digger will selfishly use and take advantage of a guy with money for her own personal gain. Whereas someone materialistic may get off their butt and work hard to support their materialisticness.

[This_is_a_complement]

Not all materialistic people are gold diggers, but all gold diggers are materialistic.

[neberle]

I feel like there both just about the same thing. I suppose you could draw a line at a materialistic person puts material things as a factor in a relationship and with a gold digger that's all they care about.

[7gnat]

A gold digger compromises morals to get what they want. A materialistic person can earn things on their own. Sometimes they overlap sometimes they don't.

[desidoll]

Do a materialistic person like someone for their expensive belonging?

[7gnat]

not necessarily but a materialistic person most likely will not date a person that shops for their clothing at wallmart.

[Nashton]

gold digger just want money...

materialistic person measure value of relationships only in what you give or buy for them

some times they are one in the same.

thats how I looked at it.

[Konnour]

Basically... none.

But there's a slight difference, materialistic persons seemingly don't use sex to get what they want.. mostly because they're not attractive enough to do that successfully, but they wouldn't mind do "become" gold-diggers if they could.

[Xx_DRE_xX]

There genuinely the same except one might earn those things while the other sleeps around & lie to get those things.

[Deft_maiden]

Word

[Moloch]

Gold diggers date you for your money. Materialistic people are concerned with buying things all the time and wasting money for possessions.

[katylaura]

gold diggers tend to put money before everything else, and don't care who they hurt and use to get it. a materalistic person may like money but is less likely to hurt people to get it.

[CasaNorba]

a gold digger expects you to give her the material she so-called deserves, and she takes advantage of your financial access... (though we men could be gold diggers once in a while)