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 CityGarden(? ), $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 doesn't have looks & are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, & who can only be your girlfriend? (My target now is to get married)

Ms. Pretty

Awesome reply:

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 analyze 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 lower 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 will not be 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 advise 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 a $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,

CEO
J.P. Morgan

Epic, What forum was this on?

I saw this a few years ago on a banker's forum. Could have been wallstreetoasis.com.

Needless to say that this was not actually a reply from the JP M CEO .. but pretty funny nonetheless

well i would say, she must have been a classical blonde :P

Sorry I dont know the source or validated the facts, I received it as an email. However made a good read though.

The girl might be silly but I still think it was a rude response, on the guys part.

Well i think the response was so rational, she asked to sell her beauty for money....nothing else, so the response was basically in response to a deal rather than a relation....the evaluation is pretty damn straight forward, it's definitely a mean response but she's the one who asked for it

Well women are about Beauty and Sensuality, thats atleast how I know them.

But the greedy (W)bankers are only interested in asset consolidation and marry an equally high earning woman and then become loyal customers to some escort agencies and viagra dealers, which is totally disgraceful.

While the high earning, dimwit, (below) average looking rich wife takes it out in corporate meetings and on her subordinates for she cannot get any satisfaction.

hummmm, one more professional investor discovered. This time on EF

In the US, people who believe 'facts' that they receive via e-mail from friends and relatives are known as Republicans.

I don't know. I think that awesome reply was written by a woman.

The Craigslist Gold Digger:
http://www.snopes.com/love/dating/golddigger.asp

There's a counter-response from the woman to the man that also came out:

http://www.financialsamurai.com/2010...ove-and-money/