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Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by zelly on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @01:40PM (#21994394)
Idk, $120k is still a lot. You are still begging the question that money even matters. There's an elephant in the room:

Basically men have vastly overestimated the importance of wealth.

A chart of the importance of wealth would drop off a cliff as you go from third-world conditions to a non-starvation civilization. Then it approaches zero as you get to NYC/SF where literally everyone is rich or else they wouldn't be living there. Guys who get mail order brides are basically arbitraging this (probably temporary) geographical difference in the importance of wealth.

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Re:Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How... by heavenlyblue on Saturday January 11, 2020 @09:12PM (#22023974)
>> Guys who get mail order brides

Are not usually exactly the winners in life.

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