Vanity?

Italy: Morguefile

Pretty girl seeking a rich husband got a shocking Investment banker's reply: Feb 18, 2014

Young woman cited

'I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here. I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above.

You might say that I’m greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York. My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you?'

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CEO cited

'Put the details aside, what you’re trying to do is an exchange of “beauty" and “money" : Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square. However, there’s a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can’t be prettier year after year.

Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It’s not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worse 10 years later.'

'Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income.This has better chance than finding a rich fool. Hope this reply helps.

signed,

J.P. Morgan CEO'

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I have viewed like reasoning previously...

Not shocking to me.

But many in society may not be familiar with which such thought.

As noted I have read like philosophy to the CEO previously. I think it was on a secular relationship site for males. One of these sites where I would gather a few nuggets of truth and also philosophically and theologically reject much of the material.

The usual.

I will admit I hold to a very similar philosophy as mentioned, but from a Christian perspective.

I would not date like.

I am not wealthy and would consider myself average looking but in above average physical condition because of reasonable lifestyle, moderate healthy eating and plenty of exercise.

I also aggressively take care of medical matters.

All within God's will.

What I bring to a potential romantic table is not likely to decline significantly over the next few decades. For example, although my cardiovascular abilities will have declined somewhat since my 20s, I still work out with cardio and muscle building exercise.

I am physically stronger than I was in the past. I am also wiser.

My qualities actually still have progressive potential as well.

However, a young woman that relies primarily on her looks is clearly a declining asset and to use business language, a 'bad investment'.

Instead a young woman, like any person, needs to have more to offer.

Needs to have more depth.

Ecclesiastes 2:7-11

English Standard Version (ESV)

7 I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem. 8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines,[a] the delight of the sons of man. 9 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me. 10 And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. 11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Footnotes: Ecclesiastes 2:8 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

Youthful physical beauty from a female/young woman is not only fleeting and limited, although in some exceptions it can last into middle age, but according to Ecclesiastes and its human philosophical way of examining life, is vanity.

To seek simply 'goods' in a romantic context is a form of idolatry.

True love, including romantic love from a Biblical Christian perspective would be based on spiritual, intellectual and romantic, mutual compatibility. New Testament concepts of love as in the New Commandment from John 13, imply a holistic approach to all love as opposed to simply one that is an exchange of physical and economic assets.

And by the way, I do not even care for her looks much.

Too produced and with obvious 'balloons' etcetera.