PriestTheyCalledHim
Bluelighter
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This is a real phenomenon and I have seen it too. To me the most pathetic form of this is people who rent luxury cars like Lambos just to act richer than they are. There is even a short Vice doc on this in Miami:
People will do stupid shit just to flex. As the old saying goes: poor people stay poor by acting rich, rich people stay rich by acting poor.
Attracting the opposite sex is obviously a part of why guys in particular do this. No one will deny if you are rich it's easier to get girls. They're much less likely to actually like you, but you'll get to fuck them I guess.
What I am saying though is that level of extremity is not the norm. It is common enough we know it exists and have seen examples of it, but most men are not out there pretending to be millionaires and most women are not only settling for guys they think are millionaires.
Most people exist somewhere in the middle and they pair up just fine. I was able to get girls just fine working in retail. I flirted with girls all the time while I was working on the till. I think if all you see is gold diggers and nothing else... gtfo of Beverly Hills haha.
What do you mean by 'flex'? Do you mean they rent expensive cars just for attention? I know a guy who took out a loan for medical school which he never attended or even applied to, and used it to buy 10 sports cars, some in new/well used condition, and others were in very poor condition and he thought he could fix them up and sell them to pay off the loan but he is not that good of a mechanic.
I also know women who are basically kept, who got pregnant on purpose when their well off or rich boyfriend told them he did not want to marry them or have children.