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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