“The following is what a women posted on a dating forum seeking a rich husband:”
“I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here. I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I’m greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York.
My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you?
Among those I’ve dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit.
If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden(?), $250k annual income is not enough.
I’m here humbly to ask a few questions:
1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches are only average-looking? I’ve met a few girls who don’t have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys.
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)
Ms. Pretty
A philosophical reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan below:
Dear Ms. Pretty,
I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyze your situation as a professional investor.
My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I’m not wasting time here.
From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain.
Put the details aside, what you’re trying to do is an exchange of “beauty” and “money” : Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square.
However, there’s a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can’t be prettier year after year.
Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It’s not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worse 10 years later.
By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a “trading position”.
If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term – same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or “leased”.
Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income. This has better chance than finding a rich fool.
Hope this reply helps.
signed,
J.P. Morgan CEO”
You read the funniest websites! It is a droll story, though "J.P. Morgan CEO" is surely neither the CEO of any major financial institution, nor a native speaker of English (check the crazy grammar).
But the letter from "Ms. Pretty," if not actually authentic, is surely an accurate picture of the mindset of platoons of real-life gold-diggers out there.
For "area on the west of New York City Garden", translate "Central Park West." It wouldn't surprise me that a woman who speaks a Slavic language would write Central Park West in that way -- and she's right, you have to earn a hell of a lot more than $250K to live there.
I like the financial analysis: I have long thought that personal beauty (whether male or female) corresponds to what financial people call a "wasting asset," though the depreciation curve is much steeper for women on average.
A propos of "leasing" as opposed to purchase, Steven Spielberg (a highly overrated director in my opinion) was married for a while to Amy Irving, a cute but truly mediocre actress. When they divorced, she got an astronomical settlement. I don't remember the numbers, but at the time I divided the king's ransom she had received, by a reasonable estimate of how many times Spielberg got lucky with her, and worked out that the "per-unit cost" was mighty high: each event probably cost enough to buy what would be, for the average American, a really nice house.
I posted the story as I found it. I didn’t notice the “NY city garden” thing until you mentioned it. I posted it without any thought of it being an FSU woman or not,,,,,, just a woman in general. They have a photo of a woman in the link,,,, but it could be anyone from anywhere. Pretty women aren’t 100% limited to the FSU.
I am currently corresponding with a woman on fb from a local dating website. Before the end of our first chat session,,,, (dual screens) I had discovered that her phone number is from a landline in Oregon,,, and not a cell phone in Mississippi. Her photo is a mystery to Google Image,,, which can be a good thing,, but she has a zero online footprint,,, no history of an existence before her fb profile .
Then she wrote this: “I just reply you now” Not; I just replied to you now,,,, or, I sent a reply to you. That line has me wondering where she might be from.
She also doesn’t seem to know how old she is,,,,, telling me that she is 35, when her birthday is May of 77’?
I asked her if she lived near Kiln, the home of Brett Farve?? No answer!
She keeps telling me how perfect we are for each other,,,, and that I should be careful at work as she is worried about me.
Insincerity is an FSU trait! I am now concerned about what damage her having my cell phone number could cause?
I don't know how much this happens in other languages, but "I reply you now" is the kind of mistake a Russian speaker might be likely to make.
Even a teacher of English I met in Ukraine -- whose English was usually immaculate -- would say "I wait you here" which is a literal rendering of the Russian sentence.
It is a curve ball, that she's on a local dating site!
On the cupid network Russian and Ukrainian sites, I was often contacted via chat by women from Ghana, who pretended to be from some little town in the midwest (for example). I got pretty good at detecting them...
My latest letter was from a woman from St. Petersburg. It began, "Hi, my name is Natalia. I live in St. Petersburg, the most beautiful city in the world."
I wrote back that I have encountered this kind of "St. Petersburg" snobbery from women before, and why was she contacting me? I live near Los Angeles, CA. I asked her if St. Petersburg is so great, why was she even on the website? No reply from her, naturally:)