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Funny, christianity (and not the charlatanary kind peddled by mega church hucksters and bible thumpers) offers a solution to all of the problems posed in this little paragraph.

I can make a random statement like software engineers start at 250k. But you have to work for google, and live in a 50 mile radius of San Jose. See how pointless that statement is? It contributes nothing to the conversation. A localized market will have adjusted salaries for its specific cost...

Adjusted for cost of living, and living in the cesspool that is San Francisco presently, what is your point?

For sure that is true. Maybe you are more talented than you give yourself credit for. But look at societies where actually people have to give a lot of effort, for example China or Japan. This hyper competitiveness has many downsides for society as well, I don't think it is healthy or natural...

Spot on.

I would love to see these "effort" guys prove they can get a top LSAT score, top MCAT, get a PhD at a top school through effort. Become a top engineer at Nvidia or Google. Just lol. Yeah bro just trust me, anyone can do it if they try enough. It's just like lifting weights at the gym, just put...

Accessible for 80% of the population? Do you know IQ is distributed on a bell curve? Grit and attitude can only get you so far, if you have worked with or studied with some of these people who are intellectual workhorses you quickly realize that competing with them is like racing with an anvil...

It is in theory, but keep in mind, these immigrants are not the types @Jesse Pinkman is mentioning. These are exceptional people working in law, investment banking, engineering, computer science, they are not slaying poon by any means. They came to work hard, study hard, and their likely outcome...

Ah, the good ol frat guy finance/business major archetype. Must be nice to be able to do that, I can assure you many of these guys come from significant privilege. I would know, I remember a lot of them firsthand from college myself.

He probably would. An uber good looking guy is perfect for many of these rich girls in Miami or NYC. We all know money is what compensates when you lack looks. Look at a guy like Sean O Pry. Do you think this guy needs a lot of money to pull?

Yes I agree with you. But my point is that these are very, very significant outliers. Just look at any other means to acquire wealth, the actual realistic way to do in this country. You have to study your ass off. You are not going out to game women, you are hitting the books, studying, going to...

What you fail to understand is there are plenty of well off men who struggle with women nowadays. You are essentially saying a guy's level of income/financial status is directly correlated to his success with women. This is true after a certain point, the line in the sand has been redrawn and...

Lol, I sincerely doubt this but sure, your word against mine here. Look at miami at the successful guys you cited. I don't see any tradesmen there.

Yes, but they are still working the trades and have no status in the modern woman's eyes, irrespective of making 100k+. Their SMV will be significantly compromised by the simple fact that they are doing honorable and necessary work.

I don't think many of these guys are terrible rotters. I think a lot are, just as the bell curve would imply, somewhat in the middle. I have seen way, way too many guys settle for women below their SMV because of hypergamy to the top 5-10%. Just like in real world economics, I don't believe...

Well, I don't mean financially ambitious. But passionate to some equal manner in at least something. Yeah, looking for sex is a low bar. Any girl with a hole can fulfill that need. If she looks more physically attractive, all the better.

Why am I defeatist? I strongly support self improvement in all aspects. Physical, financial, mental, men must work on all of this, irrespective of what their situation is with women.

Even moreso the point, I read recently that anything less than 172k in NYC is considered barely scraping by. We know, by median salaries, that most are very far away from this number. Yet another example of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots. Of a rather small minority...

Fair enough. Financial success is critically important, moreso than looks as we age. I have a question though. For these very ambitious guys, how are they happy with what the dating market offers them? Almost none of these woman have even close to the ambition that your friends have. The...

No, it is that the market is a zero-sum game. What someone else takes, means there is less for the other. I suppose you like a system where to the victor's go all the spoils. A lot of people who prospered in such a system like it. Eventually, such a system breaks, you see it time and time again...