Even successful women want to find men even more successful than they are, and that’s why a lot of them are never satisfied.
And if they do marry a wealthy man, in a couple of years his status will not be enough to satisfy her ego, she will attempt to make HIS wealth HER wealth in the divorce, and move on.
This is why, as another poster noted, rich guys would do better to get 20-year-old girlfriends and trade them every few years. The big issue would involve any desire for children, which might be solved by him adopting kids who would be EXCLUSIVELY his and could not be taken away by divorce.
With colleges attendees now over 60% female and rising, something tells me there is going to be a LOT of unsatisfied women in the future.
We forget how recently this experiment in gender relations began. And we seem to just ignore what a massive change it was. We basically took the hard learned wisdom of 6000 years and tossed them all out the window.
And people are surprised that we are left with some unintended consequences.
When men were inherently higher status than women, most women could marry “up.”
In today’s world this is no longer possible for the highest status women, especially since many high-status men still have no problem marrying well “below” them.