It depends on your perspective. Obviously not all women care that much about money, but there are more than enough women who do that a wealthy man - even if he's not handsome, even if he's old, even if he's fat, even if he's an asshole - will have no trouble finding an at least reasonably-attractive women who will be with him. And if their relationship should end, he'll have no trouble finding another one. Since probably only around 5% of all men really have that kind of money, you only need maybe 8-10% of women to feel that way for this to be true in practice.
But it goes deeper than that. For example, scientists were studying the difference in how men and women perceive each other. They would take groups of about 200 pictures of women, across the spectrum, and ask men to rate then, and across thousands of such surveys, men tended to rate them in a standard distribution - the majority near the average and only a few at the extremes (very ugly or very beautiful). Women, however, were very skewed, rating a sizable majority of men as "below average", rating 8s and 9s as "average", and only 9s and 10s as "above average."
These results have been repeated in multiple studies.
https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-the-dating-economy/
One study took it further. The took the same set of photos of men, and showed them to new groups of women, except this time, they listed an annual salary next to each picture. The result of this was that the men whose (fictional) incomes were high were rated as much as 3 points (out of 10) higher on average, while men with moderate incomes were unchanged or even rated slightly lower. This happened with 6 different groups of women, viewing 2 different sets of photos (3 groups viewing one set, and 3 groups viewing a second set).
Clearly, money DOES make a sizable difference for most women. That doesn't mean ALL women, but these studies average out the results from hundreds of women each time, and the results are consistent.
Very much so. Not long after I started posting here, I started thinking they should add to school curriculums a unit on the psychology of the opposite sex- even if you don't want to date them, you're going to be dealing with them your whole life (unless you become a monk or a nun or something), and having a better grasp on how they think would help avoid a LOT of unnecessary struggle, especially if they did, too.
Now, personally, I yield to NOBODY in the field of misunderstanding women- if it were an Olympic event, I'd be sure to take the gold, but the presenter would probably be a woman, and I'd wind up thinking she was kicking me out. So I can see that yes, a lot of guys are REALLY bad at figuring out what women want in a guy. (Women do a little better with men: as you note, we're not actually obsessed with big boobs, though they DO catch our attention reliably; but there are two important caveats- 1. it's only a little better, and 2. they tend to THINK they understand men better than they actually do, while men tend to know they're kinda clueless). Naturally, someone figures out something that reliably works tolerably well, and they run through the streets shouting that they've solved the puzzle.
In the interest of fairness, I'll note that women DID evolve to seek providers, and often a wealthy man will score a few points more on her attraction meter because of that, but women, like men, aren't blind unthinking animals, guided purely by instinct. That's where most of these ideas fall apart.
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So if I am good looking and I have a lot of Love in My wallet... I mean money, then chances are I will do pretty well than the guy who is just good looking.
Of course a good personality helps too.
They're is a theory that being a good provider enhances a man's sex appeal in the eyes of a woman. Obviously, money is very important to gold diggers, but there is more going on there than just sex appeal. Career trophy wives are notorious for infidelity.
Yup! This is true. Not everyone wants the guy to be rich af but they want the guy to be richer, unless they themselves are rich and content with money.
Yeah. It isn't money women are after.
Not really. I mean yes men call women "golddiggers" and while this is overstating the fact there is a nugget of truth in it. The majority of all women are gold diggers in a sense. That is they use a guys income/net worth to determine his overall worth.
Now my net worth is about a half million. That is far above the median net worth for my age. I'm not rich, nor do I have a prestigious job so I know most women will judge me as being less. But when they learn my net worth all of a sudden their attitudes change. I'm am where I'm at because I work hard and don't take things for granted. Nor am I interested in bankrolling her indulgences.
It's not that women are gold diggers per se so much as too many are micro managers. They meet a guy expect a base salary. Let's say 50k after so many years. They expect him to be making "x" amount more... then so many years "x" amount more. If he isn't she determines it's he's lazy or just doesn't love her. Regardless of the economy or job market. Life is hard, and most females unrealistic demands just make it harder. This is why men just find it easier to simplify their nature and just call them "gold diggers".
Hope this helps!
Who knows, dating stinks, does anyone want love anymore or just friends with benefits?
I feel you :(
I wish you good luck, it's too bad the way it is these days.
It seems true to an extent but if he is a jerk and rich no woman will put up with that for long
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