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A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:


Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?

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? Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden (?), $250k annual income is not enough.

I'm here humbly to ask a few questions:
1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, and gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches is only average-looking? I've met a few girls who don't have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (My target now is to get married)

Ms. Pretty


Here's a reply from a Wall Street Financial guy:

Dear Ms. Pretty,

I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I’m not wasting time here. From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain. 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 worried 10 years later.

By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a "trading position". If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term – same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or "leased". 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. If you are interested in "leasing" services, do contact me…

Signed,
Mr. Finance Wizard

Witness to a suicide attempt

We were a happy group strolling by the lake, cracking jokes and laughing loud.

We paused when we saw a little crowd on the stone stairs that led down to the water. A man in a dripping track suit held a drenched old lady by her arm and firmly walked her up the stairs. The lady was crying.

“I want to die.”

She kept saying.

She resisted being taken away from the lake.

That man and the others around tried to soothe her.

The woman had a gnarled face, her wrinkled skin hanging loosely. She was older than my grandmother.

My friends had moved on already. I could not.

The man who had saved her spoke to no one in particular, “People spend their lifetimes sacrificing everything for their children. And when the children grow indifferent, who wouldn’t break down!”

A woman in a track suit sighed, “Such is life!”

A man set about to report the matter to the police post nearby. The others stopped him. “What would that solve? The police will tell her family and they will only get angry at her.”

It made sense. What could the police do?

Was there any solution?

The frail old lady- how unloved, uncared, un-understood she must have felt to have thought of ending her life! How desperate, how helpless she must have been!

When she would go home today, would anyone notice that she seemed too silent? Would they even think that she could have attempted a suicide just an hour ago?

She would now have to keep on living that same life- her suicide attempt had failed.

It was not this thought that froze me. I shivered at the realization that perhaps I did not always show the care I felt for my family.