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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This has been known for awhile now, especially to those in these circles already. But people on here, seemingly outside the circle, want to delude themselves into some fantasy that the rich successful guy is going to pick the broke barista because she's kind and cute. No, like marries like.[/quote]

Assortative dating/mating. It's been around for awhile and isn't going anywhere. The people on DCUM who bring up these baristas (why always baristas?) With cute smiles as male preference are not with the times. Those are real outlier situations now.[/quote]

Assortative mating is real but there are still plenty of rich guys who marry women with high earning *potential* who then leave the workforce and SAH.  I know dozens of dual-lawyer couples like this - they're both partner track, she shifts to an NGO or trade association after the first kid and stays home for good after the second.  He makes partner because she takes the bulk of house stuff off his shoulders.  Their kids are trilingual by Kindergarten because the mom with 7+ years of higher education funnels all that mental energy into them instead of a job.  It's still assortative mating but it's not actually searching for another paycheck.[/quote]

Sounds great. What’s wrong with this? [/quote]

Nothing at all.  But it's not about wanting a high [i]earning[/i] woman, which is the OP's premise.  [/quote]

Correct. Op is wrong, especially when zoomed out and looking at a country-wide phenomenon.

The value is the signal to earn a lot, not necessarily in actually earning a lot.

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