Young women's decision to pursue alphas
Posted: August 2nd, 2013, 2:58 pm
The decision of a young woman to go to law school is very similar to her decision to spend her 20's pursuing alphas.
In both cases the young woman can select the safe stable route or she can enter a tournament and either come out way ahead or way behind.
Let's say that you are a woman who is in college. You have B++ looks and B++ IQ. If you go down a path to become a registered nurse, you are very very likely to at the age of 25 be making $40 an hour. Over the course of the rest of your life, you are likely to be able to earn $40 an hour and work as many or as few hours as you want. In other words, being a registered nurse allows you the flexibility to work 60 hours a week when you want the extra income and work 20 hours a week when you only want to work part time.
On the other hand, if you go to law school you have a shot (a small shot) at winding up with a job that pays you multiples of what you would earn as a RN. But most likely you wind up making much less (or being pushed out of the labor market completely, given the massive over supply of lawyers)
So the decision to go the law school route is a decision to enter a tournament.
Similarly, if you carefully avoid dating "alphas" and spend all your time hanging around with stable, dependable "betas" you have a very good chance of marrying a stable dependable man of similar IQ and similar looks who also makes $40 an hour.
In most of the USA, a young woman and a young beta both married at 25 both making $40 an hour (if both work full time that is $160k a year of gross income) are solidly in the upper middle class. More importantly, they can save enough of their income that they can stay in the upper middle class for life.
This is a safe, stable route for a young woman. This is the route that her "grandmother" would urge her to go down.
However, we all know there is peer pressure that influences the young woman to instead pursue alphas and "PUAs" and as a result she is likely to ignore the betas. She enters the tournament to snag an alpha. Most likely she will reach 30 unmarried and bitter. But by entering the tournament she has a chance (small chance) of snagging an alpha.
My point is that the media highlights the female winners of the tournaments. Peer pressure pushes young women to enter these tournaments. The decision to enter the tournament to land an alpha and pass up the betas is just as irrational as the decision to enter the tournament for a big high paying law job and ignore the safer registered nurse route.
Usually the safe stable route is better than the "tournament" route.
In both cases the young woman can select the safe stable route or she can enter a tournament and either come out way ahead or way behind.
Let's say that you are a woman who is in college. You have B++ looks and B++ IQ. If you go down a path to become a registered nurse, you are very very likely to at the age of 25 be making $40 an hour. Over the course of the rest of your life, you are likely to be able to earn $40 an hour and work as many or as few hours as you want. In other words, being a registered nurse allows you the flexibility to work 60 hours a week when you want the extra income and work 20 hours a week when you only want to work part time.
On the other hand, if you go to law school you have a shot (a small shot) at winding up with a job that pays you multiples of what you would earn as a RN. But most likely you wind up making much less (or being pushed out of the labor market completely, given the massive over supply of lawyers)
So the decision to go the law school route is a decision to enter a tournament.
Similarly, if you carefully avoid dating "alphas" and spend all your time hanging around with stable, dependable "betas" you have a very good chance of marrying a stable dependable man of similar IQ and similar looks who also makes $40 an hour.
In most of the USA, a young woman and a young beta both married at 25 both making $40 an hour (if both work full time that is $160k a year of gross income) are solidly in the upper middle class. More importantly, they can save enough of their income that they can stay in the upper middle class for life.
This is a safe, stable route for a young woman. This is the route that her "grandmother" would urge her to go down.
However, we all know there is peer pressure that influences the young woman to instead pursue alphas and "PUAs" and as a result she is likely to ignore the betas. She enters the tournament to snag an alpha. Most likely she will reach 30 unmarried and bitter. But by entering the tournament she has a chance (small chance) of snagging an alpha.
My point is that the media highlights the female winners of the tournaments. Peer pressure pushes young women to enter these tournaments. The decision to enter the tournament to land an alpha and pass up the betas is just as irrational as the decision to enter the tournament for a big high paying law job and ignore the safer registered nurse route.
Usually the safe stable route is better than the "tournament" route.