Crass and materialistic as this may sound, a Wall Street Journal article brings up the obvious fact that there are men and women out there seeking wealthy spouses. Here's an excerpt from that article:
"Yet even among the workaday (or wannabe) wealthy, marrying for money has become a popular pursuit. In an infamous personal ad posted on Craigslist this summer, a twentysomething New Yorker who described herself as 'spectacularly beautiful' wrote that she was looking for a man who made at least $500,000 a year. She'd tried dating men earning $250,000, but that wasn't 'getting me to Central Park West,' she said. The ad inspired all manner of parodies and follow-ups, including one by an investment banker, who replied that since his money would grow over time but her beauty would fade, the offer didn't make good business sense. She was, he said, a 'depreciating asset.'"
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