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women marry more for Potential while men marry more for attractiveness

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while ambition is a quality that women like in men, I think you are confused here. Take two men of equal age, looks, and personality. One is already a doctor but only makes 150k a year. The other is in school to be a specialized doctor that makes 300k a year,,, yet doesnt become a doctor for 3 years.

Who do girls find more attractive? The doctor they see with a money clip, or the almost-doctor with a text book?


Unless the girl is 19 and marrying her college sweetheart, its not for potential. its for provider. well provider related traits. but the point is clear

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Agreed. Plenty of people have all the "potential" they need by coming from money. And they're not exactly being hurt by it.

Being ambitious is a very abstract virtue with results that can be both very uncertain and hard to measure, and it's just a bird in the bush. Having money already is not in the least abstract, and it's a bird in the hand. It's very unlikely that a guy with more ambition but less money is on average more attractive than a guy with money and perhaps less ambition.

Plus, you can have money and be ambitious too. But I think it would be on the whole naive to claim it's the ambition that's doing the attraction.

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ugh fixed my own post