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The way things are going in America the future for most Americans is accepting lower wages to compete with outsourcing and the global economy.
Pretty soon Americans will be the ones living a more humble lifestyle compared to those in India and China.
The new reality is those in developing countries will rise in lifestyle while America lowers to the point all are on a more level wage scale.
Unless you are lucky enough to find a top paying career that can't be moved to another country or to marry into the top 5% that control the market haha.....
Only if you're interested in what it can buy. Once you get beyond that, there's really no need to chase after it.
Most of your time will be spent either preparing to earn it (thanks, public educational system!), actually earning it, trying to invest it or trying to protect it. What a waste.
I once read on a guitar forum a guy saying how he had this killer job and he had so much spending money that he had all these nice guitars but because he had to put in so much time to make that killer money he had no time to actually play those guitars. That doesn't make sense to me. Sort of like having a hot wife but too tired to have sex
Sure I understand wanting nice things and I know the stress of being financially depressed. But once you have money, you then then long for time.
I remember overhearing the owner of a local gym telling someone that he thought it would be great to have his own gym but he spends so much time running the business he doesn't have time to work out.
I'm a very good looking guy who just happens to make about 17k a year. Always been single. There ya go.
A guy will be interested in a woman he see`s maybe out working in the mall or as a cashier at the store, and would date her and have a relationship with her. But turn that around and have a woman out and see a guy working in these jobs, and he makes eyes at her. The first thing she would say is " Ooohh Paaleeeeease".
To obtuse and shallow women, it matters. A real woman could give one damn about money. Give a real woman love over money any day of the week. End of story. And if all you care about are "hot golddiggers," do some serious self-examination. Find a pretty women who loves you for who you are, listens to you and has something in common with you.
Guess I'm hosed. I make enough money to sustain myself. But I have no intention on getting married again "kevlar-vest-open". The next one who comes close to the proposition of life partnership will have to accept a prenup or no marriage license in the first place, precisely to avoid the idea that I'm supposed to subsidize a woman's livelihood in any way, or as bartering chip or exchange for her sexual and life company. Eff that. That's some 20th century anachronistic female perception of the social marketing value of what she has between the legs. Y'all better drop that one 'cuz that gig is dead.
A woman who scoffs at a prenup is a woman that shows her true motivations for partnership. You want something? work for it on your own, don't try to pawn off sex and companionship as just and righteous exchange for benefiting (even marginally) from a spouse's income and purchasing power. I'm not going to buy a prostitute, I can rent those.
The proposition of life companionship in my book is about 3 fundamental tenants: Commitment (time and loyalty), Companionship (physical and emotional), and Sacrifice (through Good Works). The material and economic guarantee or the attainment of a material standard of living is not something I explicitly nor implicitly promise nor offer as a function of life companionship. Clearly, secular American women aren't too cool with that. They just don't like being called out on it. But I didn't pull the former three out out of my rear. That comes out the very scripted vows thousands of women espouse every day in expensive church ceremonies all across this Country. Like parrots, repeating what the world wants to hear, while never actually internalizing a single syllable of that spiel. S.C.A.R.Y.
I'm at peace remaining single for the rest of my days if I can't find an attractive woman willing to follow me down the road I preach of. I rather be single than yoked to somebody who won't blink to eject the second our life condition causes her the smallest economic and material discomfort (my exwife comes to mind). Hedonism is not a virtue in my book, but a trademark of our social deficit. It's not looking good for the home team, but I'm still hopeful I'll find my statistial outlier
Shallow men put having a woman with a hot bod at the top of theirs.
^^this^^
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How do I always manage to jump on the wrong train at the wrong time?!
