> chasing material gains and using it to flex on other people who are poor usually comes from men who have an inferiority complex, they do this as a means to validate their self worth through the group because they are deeply insecure about who they are. reminder that that insecurity is and always has been rooted in the physical. i have had many a conversation with men about what makes women tick and what they are attracted to. they are convinced that wealth and material possessions are what women are physically and sexually attracted to. i explain why this is wrong, but don't have the heart to complete the thought, because that would involve pointing out directly and unambiguously that they nearly universally every single physical characteristic that women are attracted to in men. they are completely unwilling to capitulate, because it would, as you say, completely and irreparably undermine their sense of self. it is a hill they are forced to die on.
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