720. The Evolutionary Purchasability Of Women By Alpha Males
I have profiles on many matchmaking sites. One such profile I made on a site apparently according to its name just another site for finding a serious relationship.
When I found out, that this was just a secondary name for a site catering for extremely rich men, my first impulse was to delete the profile. On second thought I decided that I do not want to exclude any chance to find an intelligent and educated man, only because of him having too much money.
I am not a gold digger, I am the contrary. My best match would be someone in modest circumstances. I feel most comfortable and at ease with a frugal lifestyle. I prefer hostels over luxury hotels, I prefer a picnic with purchases from a supermarket over a luxury restaurant.
I am aware of the conflicts to expect with a rich man. I would not want to feel a beggar when accommodating his needs by partaking in his luxury standard of living. But I also would have no right to demand him to sacrifice the comforts of his accustomed luxury.
So while I would not initiate contact with men, who present themselves as rich, I had the curiosity to have a look at the profiles. I also have a profile on another site from the same company using the same software, but aiming at seniors of indifferent affluence. When running a search I noticed a considerable difference between the men's accepted age for a match between the two sites. On the general site, my age is often accepted, on the rich men's site, I am more often than not too old.
This vague observation made me curious to take a more exact look at this difference. I made a search for men of 65 on both sites. While I did not limit the search geographically, most of the profiles were from the USA.
I have profiles on many matchmaking sites. One such profile I made on a site apparently according to its name just another site for finding a serious relationship.
When I found out, that this was just a secondary name for a site catering for extremely rich men, my first impulse was to delete the profile. On second thought I decided that I do not want to exclude any chance to find an intelligent and educated man, only because of him having too much money.
I am not a gold digger, I am the contrary. My best match would be someone in modest circumstances. I feel most comfortable and at ease with a frugal lifestyle. I prefer hostels over luxury hotels, I prefer a picnic with purchases from a supermarket over a luxury restaurant.
I am aware of the conflicts to expect with a rich man. I would not want to feel a beggar when accommodating his needs by partaking in his luxury standard of living. But I also would have no right to demand him to sacrifice the comforts of his accustomed luxury.
So while I would not initiate contact with men, who present themselves as rich, I had the curiosity to have a look at the profiles. I also have a profile on another site from the same company using the same software, but aiming at seniors of indifferent affluence. When running a search I noticed a considerable difference between the men's accepted age for a match between the two sites. On the general site, my age is often accepted, on the rich men's site, I am more often than not too old.
This vague observation made me curious to take a more exact look at this difference. I made a search for men of 65 on both sites. While I did not limit the search geographically, most of the profiles were from the USA.
Then I entered the age requirements of the first 50 profiles from each of the two sites into a spreadsheet.
The result:
The rich men want on average a woman between 22.98 years and 5.14 years younger than themselves. The men with any income want on average a woman between 15.3 years younger and 2.98 years older.
Of course there can be factors other than wealth contributing to the cause of this difference. But as the differences appear nevertheless really drastic, this made me wonder about how to interpret it.
Of course there can be factors other than wealth contributing to the cause of this difference. But as the differences appear nevertheless really drastic, this made me wonder about how to interpret it.
Does this difference merely represent wishes and a subjectively felt entitlement of rich men considering themselves as alpha males? Or are these men's aspirations and claims derived from previous experiences of success with very much younger women?
I googled and found this:
"When analyzing first marriages, men on the Forbes list married women who were on average younger than the average difference for similar weddings across the US population (7.01 years younger versus 4.1 years younger"
"When analyzing remarriages of the very wealth men, they tied the knot with women who were on average an astonishing 22.32 years younger than them."
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/homo-consumericus/201306/very-wealthy-men-marry-much-younger-women
Of course I cannot know, how many of these men will find a woman as young as what they would prefer, but generally seen it is once more at least a sad indication, how much evolution has a grip upon people's subconscious choices.
Instead of being rationally able to appreciate the value of an egalitarian companionship with a woman of a similar age, men strive to be or to appear as alpha males and foolish purchasable women choose them.
