The UNREAL EXPECTATIONS of 'modern' men and women

SonOfTheMostHigh

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Alright, reflecting back on my own upbringing and childhood, I have to say that it isn’t just the media, television that is screwing children (and hence adults) up today with a bunch of negative ****. The thing I’ve come to realize about people is that they don’t think enough, most of them do not use scientific reasoning in their daily thought processes. Part of the reason is because we as human beings are creatures of habit and as human beings we will often believe something on the basis of how often it is repeated by our parents, some TV show, the news, or simply mutually agreed upon bull**** even if it is totally FALSE.

We as human beings believe falsehoods on the basis of unreal and emotionally appealing idealistic expectations, for instance it’s a mantra and religion now, not to “Settle for less”. Because we all know “Settling for less” is “bad”. Like little children, this concept is believed and revered, you hear this parroted about thousands of not millions of times throughout your lifetime. The problem is… its total propaganda based on half truths and lies. Most people’s idea of not “Settling for less” is totally divorced from the underlying reality of demographics and modern market economics in the countries they live in.

Now people today are given UNREAL expectations in our society because we have the high life of the rich and famous beamed at us from every which way as constant reminders of how good life could be. But this is only for the top 10% of the population, 10 percent ladies and gentlemen. That means to use an analog. Out of say a high school of 1,400 kids, only 140 will become wealthy. The next 10 percent will become lower upper class. And the rest of the bottom 80 will become middle class and poor. So 80 percent of the population will be middleclass and poor, this means 4 out of 5 people you will meet in your life will fall into this category. So it is totally ****ing unreal of people to say “They aren’t going to settle”, you’re either 1) Going to have to if you want to get married or have some form of LTR in this lifetime 2) do not get married at all and just have a bunch of relationships of varying types or 3) Move to some other area with a rich demographic or move to another country. 4) Go some other way, open marriage, etc.

I’ll use Canada as my example, Canada has a population of 33 million (est) using the CIA world fact book. Canada’s workforce is roughly 17.59 million people strong. Labor force: 17.59 million (2006 est.)

Now the top 10% of that is upper class to super rich, roughly 1.8 million people upper class to very rich. The next 10 percent (1.8 million ) are not exactly ‘rich’ but lower upper class and well off, not quite rich but rich by most middle class people’s standards.

This means only 1 out of every 5 people you could possibly meet will be fairly well off, and the other 4/5 will be middle class or poor. This means 80 percent of the people you will meet will be middle class or poor.

Right now over 6.4 million Canadians are living in poverty. That is a hell of a lot of people, that’s roughly 39 percent of the total workforce is in serious poverty. So that means 2/5, that is, 2 out of every 5 people will be poor, almost half the people you will meet.

Now we know about using dating sites to filter incomes or using for pay matchmaking services, unfortunately this means that many women are living in a fantasy world unfortunately. The number of women that want “economically stable” or wealthy men to the amount of wealthy men available is ineffably small, this means a lot of misery for a good number of women out there. The same applies to men looking for wealthy women. Just so you don’t think I’m leaving men out ladies.

The truth is this, modern market economies dictate what economic prospects are available in terms of jobs. Say even if you had a whole population of people with the same or similar IQ’s, talents, etc, because of the limited supply of high paying jobs, someone would end up being middle class and poor anyway. There are simply not enough high paying seats to go around, period. I’m not even going to mention the complexities of off shoring and currency disparities between the West, like the United States and Canada with those of the east, like India, China, etc.

So ladies and gentleman stop living in a fantasy world and get real, no one wants to build wealth through hard work and sacrifice today. Many people want someone who’s “Ready made” stamped out by a cookie cutter factory, ready and able to meet their relationship and economic expectations.

My advice to you those people is to GET REAL. Both my parents both came from dirt poor backgrounds, they were among lowest of the lower classes practically. They opened a business together and are now fairly well off middle class couple, they came from nothing but $10,000 in savings in their pockets to much more then that now, 3 cars, a nice house, HDTV, Internet, Cable TV, etc.

The truth is today everybody wants instant gratification. Many people are going to be in for recurring disappointment simply because they are unwilling to take the steps necessary due to unreal ideas about how the world is.

So my advice to you all, study the demographics and income distribution of the populations where you live and the sex ratios to get an idea of how difficult it will be for you to meet the expectations you hold now and to make sure your expectations are not distorted.
 
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I don't know anyone who dates a girl for her money. This article seems to assume that financial status is what everyone is looking for.
 

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I could give a rat's ass what type of money the girl I'm dating makes. 'Settling for less' for me, means settling for someone you are not 100% sexually attracted to, who you don't feel 100% connected with.
 

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When it comes to dating/sex... the point you are making has even MORE validity.

Think about it... a hundred years ago all the people you saw were the ones in your town. The hottest girl you ever saw was some chick from "high school" or something like that.

Now? We're bombarded every day by pictures/video of the hottest women on Earth. If we choose, we can see them having hardcore sex.

How much do you think that affects our selection process? I would think we are probably using unfair comparison methods when we see a REAL girl walk up to us on the street.
 

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naes said:
I don't know anyone who dates a girl for her money. This article seems to assume that financial status is what everyone is looking for.
You may not date a girl for her money, do some research money is one of the top 5 problems in all long term relationships. I'm not saying "it's all about the money" but money definitely matters in terms of long term prospects and marriage.
 

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Money, Education, and a girls Career mean NOTHING to a man.
 

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I don't understand the point of this article. Are you basically saying everything comes down to money? That seems to be the only issue discussed.

So we're not all going to be rich. That is fine by me, I don't need a sonogram machine like Tom Cruise. :rolleyes: boohoo. Tell me something I don't know.
 

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I wouldn't mind having a lot of money, but I wouldn't break my neck for it. I dont mix money with personal business anyway. As long as I have enough options to manuever I'm straight. Money is a tool and thats it.
 

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Yeah,


Unreal expectations are born of a PERFECTIONIST mindset. But the irony of it all is that in most cases, perfection is only a matter of the perception.

What seems unreal to some may seem commonplace to others.
 

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Now when I say I want someone who is "financually secure", that means he has a job that is able to support his lifestyle, has his credit cards under control (No owing $15,000. each to Visa, MC and AX) and has some money in a savings plan. He doesn't have to make $250,000 a year. But I'll be damned if I get into a relationship with a man that I have to support. I feel this is a very real expectation.
 
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