Would anyone be that stupid?
Someone forward this email to me which I thought it would be interesting to share..
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'mvery pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500kannual salary or above. You might say that I'mgreedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class inNew York. My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who hasan income of $500k annual salary? Are you allmarried? 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 seemsthat this is my upper limit. If someone is going tomove 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 thenames and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches is only average-looking?
I'vemet a few girls who doesn't have looks and are not interesting, but they areable to marry rich guys
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only beyour 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 analyzey our situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hopeeveryone believes that I'm not wasting time here.From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marryyou. 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 andsquare. However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, butmy money will not be gone without any good reason.The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can't beprettier year after year. Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am anappreciation 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 laterBy the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, datingwith you is also a "trading position". If the trade value dropped we willsell it and it is not a good idea to keep it forlong term - same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruelto say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with greatdepreciation 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 tomarry a rich guy. And by the way, you could makeyourself 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, J.P. Morgan





