Comments by "mhtinla" (@mhtinla) on "PsycHacks" channel.

  1. Forget about the $50,000 beer with a date. It's hard for high-value men or super attractive women to even have regular friends, if they have to put a price tag on everything. For example, it's not economical for a corporate lawyer to drink beer with a buddy, if that buddy does not represent significant business opportunities for the lawyer, according to Dr. Taraban. I have to say, that's a sad and bleak view of the world. Not all people behave based on extrinsic rewards alone (money, fame, status, or a trip to Burj Dubai), which often ruins intrinsic motivation (e.g. simple, genuine human connection). As I get older, I put more value (not price) on having sex with someone I connect well with, than with a super hot escort knowing she only sees me as a walking wallet. On the other hand, most women I know would probably laugh at an invitation to visit Dubai only to be treated like a piece of meat by an oil prince. (Most of them can pay for a trip to Dubai themselves anyways.) Like my late grandfather used to say, "Any issue that can be handled by money is easy. Focus on the ones that cannot."
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  2. Mike Tyson once described the line of women (groupies) outside his hotel room whenever he visits a new city -- tall, short, young, old, pretty, ugly... it's an open buffet and no strings attached! LOL. I'm sure the same thing happens to rock stars and business tycoons like Elon Musk. So... you are right. If one has to hire escorts for sex he's not as successful as he thinks.
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  3. Hedging is like insurance. It ONLY pays when the main bet fails. But since it's possible that career and marriage both work out for women, it's more likely that women see those as two INDEPENDENT bets. Also, a career often cannot be measured by a binary success/failure. So even when a woman doesn't climb as high as she expected in the corporate ladder, she can still have an income stream, in addition to the one from her marriage which she manages separately. But Orion is right about men. When a man's career fails, his value in the sexual market drops too. The correlation between career and marriage is a lot higher for men than for women who can spread the risk across multiple bets.
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  4. What are the equivalent of those that work on men?
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  5.  @NickM_FirstofHisName  "it's getting men angry that maintains men in their situation, and it's telling" -- So where are those content on Youtube. I'd like to see some examples.
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