@NoCopeOnlyRope
You know what the most ironic thing about all this entire thing, this quote right here, it really shows how you guys are limited by your own ego:
So you were quite alright with using wealth and status to
INDIRECTLY purchase sex from women (lets be honest, that's what marriage and dating is, its all prostitution, its just indirect so it allows all parties the cope of not "feeling like an animal or a piece of meat")
But you never thought to just keep working towards being wealthy still, so you can just
DIRECTLY purchase sex......... I guess you ironically considered that "beneath you"
That's the funny part, for some reason your motivation changed, when the intentions you had with your wealth at the end of the day were the same -
TO PURCHASE SEX
But because you don't have the veil of ambiguity and plausible deniability that comes with courtship systems like "dating" where you can
PRETEND you aren't paying for sex, you no longer want wealth
By your own words there was no reason for you to stop being motivated, the end goal was the same, you could have just switched from indirect payments to direct payments, but stroking your ego is too important to you, and pursuing the direct method would make you "think less of yourself"
AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU'D STILL BE PAYING FOR SEX USING WEALTH AND STATUS
So you might as well just go right back to STEM