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Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by Zenbit_UX on Monday January 06, 2020 @12:56AM (#21966853)
Of all the women I know, not one of them aspires to be "a millionaire's wife".
Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by NeverFade on Monday January 06, 2020 @02:50AM (#21967357)
Funny coincidence, I never met such a woman either!

I did meet plenty who just happened to only date men who make high six to seven figures. It was a serial coincidence!

Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by take_a_breath on Monday January 06, 2020 @11:16AM (#21970275)
Me too! Unfortunately none of them ever married those men and most of them remain pretty unhappy with their dating lives. Another serial coincidence!
Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by NeverFade on Monday January 06, 2020 @11:01PM (#21976701)
That's a pretty expected outcome when you pay that game.

If you take the sum of all the comments, it goes something like this:

1. Women are disproportionally flocking to a few guys at the very top of the income / success curve. 2. Those guys have amazing dating life, and no pressure to commit. 3. They will go through dozens of women and eventually settle with one. So if they date X women in their bachelorhood, only one 1/X will end up marrying them, and X-1/X will be left disappointed and unhappy. 4. X can be 200+, so that's a lot of unhappy women. 5. Meanwhile tons of guys below the top would love get a date, and can't. They're also unhappy. 6. Evolution isn't optimizing for happiness.

Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by Apocryphon on Monday January 06, 2020 @03:10AM (#21967455)
Sounds like a self-selection situation
Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by barry-cotter on Monday January 06, 2020 @01:45AM (#21967081)
"How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him"
Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by krageon on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:30AM (#21968612)
To contrast this, I think at least a quarter of the ones I know have this as an ambition. Knowing people that do want something or that do not has nothing to do with averages, unless you happen to know everyone :)
Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by Zenbit_UX on Monday January 06, 2020 @06:21PM (#21974663)
I guess I know better / more ambitious women than you. :)
Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by krageon on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @07:12AM (#21979205)
I try not to put value judgements on people just for what they think they want in life, so I don't know that I agree.