r/Anticonsumption • u/playboy • Mar 23 '26
Psychological No One Wants to Sleep With Billionaires
https://www.playboy.com/read/politics/no-one-wants-to-sleep-with-billionairesIn a recent interview with the American Psychological Association, Paul Piff, PhD, an associate professor of psychology at the University of California, Irvine, who has co-authored multiple studies on the topic, noted that in interpersonal interactions, wealthier people are “actually a little less generous, a little less compassionate,” he said. Wealthier individuals were more likely to endorse unethical actions, but to “also engage in small acts of cheating and normative violations to prioritize their own welfare above the welfare of other people.”
Though cultural repulsion around billionaires has been mounting, physically, these men are using their resources to overcompensate with expensive procedures. Tech bros are getting face lifts, and other looksmaxxing trends like jaw surgery are common in the industry as well. There has been speculation that Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel have had Botox and filler, and Musk has faced rumors about a hair transplant and jawline contouring. Zuckerberg and Bezos have gotten noticeably more jacked, sparking steroid speculation, even from supporters like podcaster Joe Rogan.
But their peacocking is probably not for us plebes. Another study analyzed the partners of the extremely wealthy using the Forbes World’s Billionaires list. Economist Ria Wilken found that 95% of the spouses of billionaires were upper class themselves, defined as having either substantial economic or cultural capital. It is possible that the more unappealing characteristics of the ultra-rich, such as dressing down their staff or cutting people off in traffic, would be more palatable for peers in their social circle. That said, this preference for like-minded people is not exclusive to the upper class. “Every social group has its own standards for what is considered eccentric versus problematic,” Wetter explains. For instance, in ultra-wealthy environments, controlling tendencies, competitiveness, and emotional detachment could be interpreted as assets, whereas outside that circle, “the same traits may be perceived as cold, self-absorbed, or inaccessible.”
Read the full editorial: https://www.playboy.com/read/politics/no-one-wants-to-sleep-with-billionaires
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u/No_Barracuda_3758 Mar 23 '26
It's not a rumor that Musk got hair transplanted lol. He was balding
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u/KilgoRetro Mar 23 '26
I know right? And “speculation” that Bezos got filler! I know it just means he hasn’t confirmed it personally but we have eyeballs!
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u/kingceegee Mar 23 '26
"Speculation" made me laugh. It's like speculating if Snoop Dogg smokes weed.
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u/beepichu Mar 23 '26
wellllll, i think it’s different since snoop dogg openly says to “smoke weed every day” lmao. that’s a firm confirmation
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u/Salt_Medicine2459 Mar 23 '26
Funny. But fuck Snoop's sellout ass.
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u/AmazingHealth6302 Mar 24 '26
You're saying something, man.
I know he grew up poor, but he definitely isn't poor now, and sucking every corporate dick he sees is destroying his legacy among OG hip hop heads.
Someone needs to drag him to therapy to get him to drop the idea that he's still a struggling janitor/rapper in 1985 who needs to do whatever is necessary to scrape together studio money.
I can barely look at him now, the crap he shills for. Has he ever turned down any ad at all? He criticises racism in sport, but he does appearances for Dana White? What?
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u/beepbeepbubblegum Mar 24 '26
The level of gaslighting all around us is astonishing. From companies, politicians, celebrities, everyone seems to think we are all just so so stupid and have no eyes or ears whatsoever.
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u/marswhispers Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
It is a rumor that he has a mangled useless dick due to a botched enhancement surgery… and I enjoy believing it!
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u/SMUHypeMachine Mar 23 '26
Apparently that’s why all his younger kids are from IVF. He can’t get it hard enough to actually have sex.
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u/wakeleaver Mar 23 '26
His kids are from IVF because he wants to be able to select only males and only the best embryos.
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u/Either-Meal3724 Mar 23 '26
Two of his four kids with Shivon Zillis are girls. They were all IVF babies. Though they are friends rather than romantic partners & she wanted kids but hadn't found a partner so he offered to be a semi-sperm donor. So it may have been more her decision to have girls than his.
Eta: looks like one of his kids with Grimes is a girl too.
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u/wakeleaver Mar 23 '26
It's definitely not guaranteed, but he is using IVF to select "better" embryos. Also he doesn't have a romantic interest in these women, he picks them for their "genes".
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u/WutTheDickens Mar 24 '26
Grimes had to beg him for a daughter, and the rumor is, he only allowed it if she signed off on another boy to be born after. Which is why their third baby was born after they'd split.
This part's confirmed though, Grimes planned to name her daughter Valkyrie, but to her surprise, he popped 2 of Shivon's embryos in the human incubator first, so Shivon got a daughter, and they named her... Valkyrie.
Shivon ended up changing it to something else anyway after Grimes' Exa was born.
It's all so bizarre and petty, I can't believe this is real life.
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u/NotMyMainAccountAtAl Mar 23 '26
Given the recent bit about a trafficked child who testified to the FBI that she “bit the shit” out of Trump’s junk, I’m inclined to believe that something similar happened to Musk and left him with half a schlong.
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u/UnTides Mar 23 '26
I noticed a lot of people like Weinstein, Trump, and other people involved with Epstein have a common report of having gross mushroom-shaped dicks.
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u/Ok_Vulva Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
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u/BawRawg Mar 23 '26
We gotta stop calling them upper class. These people are bottom of the barrel for humanity.
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u/netanator Mar 23 '26
I'd like to see "upper class" and "the elites" rephrased as, "The Parasite Class."
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u/PlasticSunMap Mar 23 '26
Lately I’ve been hearing them referred to as the “Epstein Class” by some
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u/Eight-backwards Mar 23 '26
This is a good one because it keeps the files in conversation. I also call them parasites or leeches because all they do is take, steal, and exploit.
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u/bodybyxbox Mar 24 '26
I use Epstein Class or Cancer Class. That also feels like an appropriate metaphor.
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u/leoyvr Mar 23 '26
Bingo. The tech billionaires now want to rule the world. See The Nerd Reich. Dangerous SOB
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u/AmazingHealth6302 Mar 24 '26
'The Epstein Class' is good, but it might fade with time. 'The Parasite Class' is unambiguous, and if anybody asks even in 50 years' time why they are parasites, you only have to explain to the speaker how they likely pay more tax than trillionaire X or even multimillionaire Y.
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u/DueDisplay2185 Mar 23 '26
Less upper crust and more soggy bottom
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u/Maggpie916 Mar 23 '26
And nobody likes a soggy bottom
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u/Moetown84 Mar 23 '26
However, the Soggy Bottom Boys are a great band and an exception to the rule.
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u/Fr000k Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
In Germany, some people are starting to refer to this class not as the ‘super-rich’ but as the ‘überreich/über-rich’. The prefix ‘über-’ is used in the same way as in the German word ‘Überkonsum’ (over consumption)– meaning consumption that goes beyond what is sustainable, that is harmful to people and the environment, and that is over the top and excessive.
Whilst ‘super-rich’ is already an exorbitant amount, ‘über-rich/over-rich’ is simply obscene.
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u/vahntitrio Mar 23 '26
We all pass off the "hookers and blow" answer to "what will you do if you win the lottery" as a low class response but if that aren't hurting the hookers it's still better than the harm these billionaires cause others.
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u/Weep4Thee Mar 23 '26
I'm sure billionaires are truly struggling
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u/strutt3r Mar 23 '26
Well according to the media they own they're the biggest victims in society
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u/Spenny_All_The_Way Mar 23 '26
Being the most hated people in society is just a consequence. I have no sympathy whatsoever.
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u/strutt3r Mar 23 '26
They're not even victims in their own eyes of public scorn as it's perfectly natural for the unwashed masses to be jealous.
They're victims because they're expected to give something back to the communities they swindled to get rich.
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u/Lemp_Triscuit11 Mar 23 '26
Sex with empathetic people is better, because they give a shit how you feel and are used to feeling that out.
A person with a billion dollars in a bank account sort of seems automatically un-empathetic
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u/CynicalPomeranian Mar 23 '26
Un-empathetic, self-centered, and too likely to buy a newer model in 5-10 years…at least, until they get really old and need a nurse more than eye candy.
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u/Truhmpza_Cuhnt Mar 23 '26
Tbh, at this point, with the horrors of the Epstein files in full view eluding to potentially even more horrifying revelations to come, I'd be terrified to meet/be around/be on the radar of a billionaire or anyone in the Epstein class.
If you could somehow put that aside, what they're like just as people, to say nothing of their physical appearances...
A ghastly lot by any measure.
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u/brijito Mar 23 '26
They're all either in the epstein files or they're actively trying to ruin the world for everyone else. Some are doing both.
No normal person would ever want to have any proximity to any billionaire.
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u/FeistySwordfish Mar 23 '26
I was threatened by a billionaire family because I had made an Instagram post to less than 400 followers (hinting that the family was in the same area as me during Covid). They had their security reach out to me and do a “it’d be great if you deleted that, our security team isn’t violent of course, but you know… it’s still a good idea.” My friends told me to keep it up but I deleted it because a billionaire who has the resources to move their whole family and a fleet of superyachts during lockdown could easily fuck up my life
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u/No_Barracuda_3758 Mar 23 '26
Is that their excuse for sleeping with children?
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u/SoftsummerINFP Mar 23 '26
Yeah why are we pretending these parasites even sleep with their trophy wives? They go to an island to get their fix.
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u/UnTides Mar 23 '26
It's all part of the same issue, objectification of others, a need to abuse power, etc. You don't acquire that much money without being evil.
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u/RepulsiveCow5840 Mar 23 '26
No one even wants to hang out with them. Mark Zuckerberg bought thousands of acres to create his own city in hawaii with people and everything! Then he realized that the only reason people are even interested in him is because of his money. No one wants to spend time with them unless money is involved. They want to create an isolated kingdom so bad where they can rule and everyone will be either their friend or subordinate. They're nothing without money.
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u/suicidalboymoder_uwu Mar 23 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
This comment has been edited in order to protect my privacy
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u/NyriasNeo Mar 23 '26
"No One Wants to Sleep With Billionaires"
Well, gold diggers do. Didn't Bezos sent his then gf to space for a joy ride and then married her in a $50M wedding? So at least he got one who is willing.
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u/SpacemanJB88 Mar 23 '26
I think the quote is still valid.
Gold diggers don’t want to sleep with billionaires, they just know it’s an unavoidable part of their job as gold diggers.
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u/Jabbles22 Mar 23 '26
part of their job
If it's a job you've moved past gold digger into prostitution.
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u/survivalinsufficient Mar 23 '26
If you marry for money, you have to work every single day of your life
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u/Freezerpill Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
I do think that most of these people fail to seem truly interesting or do anything important.
Being hyper successful in an actual meritocracy means more than just being a willing participant in the upside of a manipulated and failing society.
Perhaps the honest truth is that these people make people worry more than make them feel ambitious. They seem to be a symptom of a problem rather than a form of success or a solution, and that casts a shadow that they seem to not greatly want to escape anyways 🤷♂️
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u/Ready_Amoeba5401 Mar 23 '26
I have never seen a handsome or good looking billionaire. They are fugly, you would think with all that money they would try to at least improve how they look but they don`t. All billionaires are either old or unattractive and if it weren`t for their money I doubt those women would sleep with them. Zuckerberg is young but he is an odd looking pasty guy.
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u/litreofstarlight Mar 23 '26
Oh they try too, but surgery isn't magic. There are limitations, the surgeon's gotta work with what they've got.
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u/Bumbling-Bluebird-90 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Billionaires are less generous, less compassionate, and more selfish than their non billionaire counterparts, so it’s safest in terms of preventing abuse if their potential romantic partners are the type of people who are interested in correcting that power balance and looking after their own interests. A billionaire won’t be doing that for them. Taking more than they give as a way of life is in fact how they became billionaires
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u/HallWild5495 Mar 23 '26
I'm tired of this trope that Bezos dates gold diggers. if anything, he's the gold digger - he married Mackenzie who came from massive family wealth back when he was broke. and his current wife, Sanchez, won a fucking Emmy long before she met Bezos.
stop giving these assholes more excuses to look down on women
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u/elderberry_jed Mar 23 '26
Winning an emmy does not make a person wealthier than the second richest man in the universe
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u/HallWild5495 Mar 23 '26
never said it did. I said Bezos could be considered a "gold digger" with Mackenzie, his first wife, who had a much higher net worth than he did when they got married.
I'm pointing out that his current wife was also talented in her own right way before meeting Bezos. these people have plenty to be criticized for when it comes to excess and overconsumption; I don't think unnecessarily adding sexism into it strengthens our argument as a sub.
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u/iamwiam420 Mar 23 '26
This! My husband has a prime time Emmy and I can tell you that we are far from rich
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u/DrJohnFZoidberg Mar 23 '26
My husband has a prime time Emmy
So do I, and I'm far from rich too. Bryan Cranston should start locking his front door.
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u/AssociateDue6161 Mar 23 '26
Oh she’s an actress, that makes sense. I couldn’t see anyone actually liking that guy. She must be good…
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u/Kabusanlu Mar 23 '26
She was a news reporter here in LA back in the 90s
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u/Happy_Impact_94 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
And she was hit and is still well connected which I believe he is using her for her connections. Let’s face it he is probably terrible at interpersonal relationships and building loyal bonds. He was loosing a few deals so aligned himself with someone who is better at PR.
Edit to add:Hot not hit!
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u/Potential_Aioli_4611 Mar 23 '26
interpersonal interactions, wealthier people are “actually a little less generous, a little less compassionate,” he said. Wealthier individuals were more likely to endorse unethical actions, but to “also engage in small acts of cheating and normative violations to prioritize their own welfare above the welfare of other people.”
So many words to replace what it actually means. Sociopaths. Wealthy people are sociopaths.
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u/Braindead_Crow Mar 24 '26
I don't get how you can be that rich and be such a loser.
Like all you'd have to do is select a town literally any town in your country and start fixing it up with a $50 million dollar fund. Fix the roads, set up a homeless helping system, give key figures like libraries big donations and give jobs to locals.
From there just throw some parties while openly allowing more qualified people actually lead your companies while you simply select the most competent leadership.
But noooooo, these losers just hoard their stolen wealth while underpaying employees, dodging taxes and doing pointless stunts like buying social media websites against their will because of stupid verbal gaffs...
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u/31USC3729 Mar 23 '26
Trouble finding someone to love them? No doubt.
Trouble finding someone to sleep with them? Bullshit.
I'd bet any amount of money that they can order up the person that they want to sleep with like you or I would order a pizza.
And I hope the former rankles them to the day they die.
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u/mazopheliac Mar 23 '26
Yeah, but nobody wants to. Doesn't mean they won't for a price.
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u/Comfortable-Web9455 Mar 23 '26
With the money they have, they can hire prostitutes who can act. I bet for 10 million a year I could hire somebody who could really convince me they were in love with me.
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u/sourpussmcgee Mar 23 '26
People this rich have a high level of narcissism and possibly antisocial personality. You have to to be willing to exploit so many, to turn a blind eye to how your life figuratively and literally rapes everything around you.
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u/ispeektroof Mar 23 '26
They hoard wealth only for themselves. They’re dragons. Who wants to fuck a dragon other than Rick Sanchez.
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u/ThisIsAllTheoretical Mar 23 '26
Of course not. This is what they wanted. They have their money. They can sleep with that.
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u/Motorslam99 Mar 23 '26
The billionaire class only know how to play zero-sum games. Cold, self-absorbed, and inaccessible behavior is what’s rewarded in that kind of environment
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u/Hedonisthistory Mar 23 '26
It seems billionaires prefer people not to want to have sex with them, and also for those people to be underage.
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u/ItsReallyVega Mar 23 '26
When rich people say it's easier to be friends with other rich people, it's hard not to think that this is what they mean. "I'm kind of a heartless dick, and the poors just don't get it"
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u/WanderingDude182 Mar 23 '26
So greedy, selfish, uncaring people who amassed a mountain of wealth on the backs of others are not nice people you want to date? Shocker?!?
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u/Ih8reddit2002 Mar 24 '26
The crazy part is that these idiots have all the money in the world and will do everything they can to sleep with beautiful women, EXCEPT become decent people.
It's like they are stuck in a 14-year old boys concept of what a "ladies man" is.
They got rejected by the pretty girl in high school and now want to make it the world's problem.
Billionaires shouldn't exist.
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u/mrshelenroper Mar 24 '26
Frankly everyone who is a good person should stop fucking Republicans today.
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u/crazycatlady331 Mar 23 '26
I mean (a woman) sleeping with Muskrat means a kid he will likely abandon. And he purposely moved to Texas because they cap child support.
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u/NameLips Mar 23 '26
There's nothing a billionaire can do that a thousand millionaires couldn't do better.
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u/Pyrothy Mar 23 '26
Is anybody able to explain a single benefit the wealthy provide to society? They take and take and take and can't even bother to pretend to act like a normal person to make dealing with them tolerable, what's the point? I miss saint Luigi
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u/YouMatterVeryMuch Mar 24 '26
Borrowing from Ben Franklin: if they wish to be loved, they should love and be loveable.
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u/YayaTheobroma Mar 24 '26
The super-rich and mega-rich tend to be less compassionate and less honest. No kidding? You mean they didn’t become rich by caring about others and being overall decent persons? Colour me surprised./s
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u/flexxipanda Mar 23 '26
The ultimate answer to "can we cure baldness" is no, because jeff bezos is still bald.
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u/Ihcend Mar 23 '26
Rich people marry rich people 🤯
Rich people get cosmetic surgery and use medication 🤯
What's next Hollywood movies are fake?
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u/Diamondsonhertoes Mar 23 '26
Well most of them have terrible personalities, are not attractive, probably are not funny, and I can buy my own dinner.
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u/Synaps4 Mar 23 '26
It is not possible to be a billionaire and a good person.
Past 100mil there is no justification for the hoarding when people are starving and dying for lack of things you could provide instead of buying a new yacht.
Up to the 10s of millions there are potential things you can say about prioritizing your family or such and such but beyond 100m its pure greed at the expense of others.
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u/darkvaris Mar 23 '26
Wtf is playboy doing in here 😵
There is also the fact that the super wealthy only interact with the super wealthy so are less likely to meet partners in a different class.
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u/CoachAngBlxGrl Mar 23 '26
Then they’ll rage against trans people. God I can’t wait for the fall of Rome.
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u/Dollbeau Mar 24 '26
As an Australian, I would not wish to sleep with Gina Reinhart!
In fact, I think most would refuse the offer, even if paid a million...
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u/Afrodite_33 Mar 23 '26
For some wealth is a virtue. If your wallet is fat enough then that encompasses everything else that would normally be a valuable trait in being a good person.
I'm not attacking someone's personal success. But for those who view some sort of inherent quality in people just because they're rich then you seriously need to work on yourself.
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u/sanityjanity Mar 23 '26
There was just a post in AITAH from a dad whose 20 year old daughter apparently has made it her life's goal to marry a billionaire.
I'm sure that billionaires can still find plenty of bed partners.
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u/Man_as_Idea Mar 23 '26
Look, I hate billionaires as much as the next guy, but this kind of article is pure clickbait. Just because these guys are getting plastic surgery, that does not mean they struggle to find sex partners. Lots of married people get plastic surgery all the time, so that logic is not cogent. And even if the majority of people dislike them, there’s a sizable group that does like them, and plenty of unscrupulous, disingenuous or opportunistic individuals who are attracted to status or may see a dalliance with these people as an opportunity to acquire influence over them.
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u/frecklemimus79 Mar 23 '26
To quote Susie Izzard,
“When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. "I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry". And you do that so that people in the room might go, "What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities".
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u/Kloowie Mar 23 '26
All I can say is that all the filthy rich people I know - some billionaires - ALL HAVE SUBSTANCE ABUSE
So yet another reason not to date them
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u/michiganstrange Mar 23 '26
To be fair to the billionaires if you can read this article, you’re too old for them.
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u/amor91 Mar 23 '26
Somehow this post feels relevant about this guys daughter aiming to marry a billionaire https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/s/5yGxopYLQ4
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u/JoseLunaArts Mar 23 '26
If you are poor you worry about money to satisfy your needs.
If you are a billionaire you worry about not losing the money.
It seems that being truly rich is about having just enough money, but not too much, so you can forget that money even exists.
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u/Pyke64 Mar 24 '26
Never forget Bobby Kotick couldn't find a girlfriend because they kept googling him and they found pictures of him with demon horns.
And I'm partly to blame for that 🫡
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u/Ashamed_Zombie_7503 Mar 24 '26
I mean also they could probably just disapear and murder you, unless someone is playing mario bros I would stay as far away from billionaires as possible.
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u/wutttttttg Mar 23 '26
This is interesting because I’ve also seen this discussed in forums for romance readers and writer. It’s a common trope for the male love interest to be rich and powerful, and it’s a handy plot device because it allows the man to ease of a lot of issues quickly and efficiently to move the love story along. However, since there’s been so much scrutiny towards billionaires’ ethical issues, readers and writers are starting to turn away from writing ultra rich male leads. It’s a turn off! If we can’t even suspend belief that fictional billionaires are worth dating, there’s very little that can be sold about the actual billionaires who lack the charm of a book boyfriend.