| Two rich people could share life and not drain each other economically.
Two poor people who try to get rich off the other are headed for trouble, they will end up making each other poorer.
Now if you have a rich person married to a poor person then love can flourish as long as the rich person has an unlimited and unconditional supply of money. Or if the poor one is not trying to take advantage of the other's wealth in a manner that would be seen as a threat to the wealthy one. And as long as the wealthy one is not thinking they can use money to buy love.
Men want sex, women want security which is represented by money. Nothing wrong with a girl who want's to be a stay at home mom looking for a man who has a good job, that she is also attracted too in a romanic way. That was the foundation for that "old time marrage". Things are a bit more complex nowadays.
That however can ruin the real natual seclection processes. Like a female cat would pick the tom cat who is the strongest, and can out fight the other tom cats for the "rights" of mating. That keeps the gene pool strong so that the fittist genes are passed on to the next generation. Likewise the male would pick the female what is the most attactive and healthy looking, in theory.
Money is a false power, a false sense of fitness. Overcoming the other fat cats economically has nothing to do with physical genes that would be passed on - you could be rich like Larry Flint but be in crumby health - not really a good choice for a mate relative to reproduction which is the purpose of "love" and romance biologically.
Well, those are some thoughts on the topic.
Technosoul. |