You Can't Buy Love...Wrong

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Of course, Trump is also very open about the fact that money confers power and that power can be used to compel people to do, or refrain from doing, various things. For example, it can be used to compel people to refrain from complaining if they are sexually assaulted. As we know, Trump has commented on how useful money and power are for people who wish to carry out such assaults.

One of the interesting philosophical points raised here is the subject of freely-entered contractual arrangements versus exploitation. I presume you would argue that the contractual arrangements into which you enter with various women are freely entered into by both parties. The extent to which this is true is related to the more general debate about the extent to which people in general are truly free to treat their own labour as a freely trade-able commodity. That has been debated elsewhere on this website.
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Thanks a lot, Steve, for the kibitzing. I have four sugar babies: Two are PhDs from top universities, and one of them teaches at Harvard. Another is in her PhD program at a top ten university after receiving her Masters from an Ivy League school. The fourth just graduated from undergraduate school summa cum laude and is on her way to graduate school. I’m not naming the schools because I don’t want any pointers to identification. Some might view the girls’ brains as a coincidence, but I think it indicates that they appreciate something in me besides just money. They don’t date uninteresting men, or men of poor character, regardless of how rich they are.

One of my babies just this past weekend told me about a daddy she dated worth $50 million. He was disrespectful to a waiter and she walked away from him. The girls are gorgeous, accomplished and smart, and they have their pick of many daddies, so they can choose the cream of the crop, which indicates my other attributes count.
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I don't know what "kibitzing" means, so I had to google it. Apparently it can mean:

"look on and offer unwelcome advice, especially at a card game."
or
"speak informally; chat."

I'm not sure which of those two senses was the intended one.
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...One of my babies just this past weekend told me about a daddy she dated worth $50 million. He was disrespectful to a waiter and she walked away from him. The girls are gorgeous, accomplished and smart, and they have their pick of many daddies, so they can choose the cream of the crop, which indicates my other attributes count.
My previous assessment that these young women are interested only in your wealth was based on the information that you had given me then. You said that as you have aged, two notable constants have been your wealth and the interest that women show in you. So I naturally assumed that it was a good working hypothesis that that correlation implied cause.

Now you've added a new factor: your relatively respectful attitude towards waiters. Given that new information, I concede that it is likely that they also like you for that attribute.
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My primary sugar baby is Israeli, so I am using more Hebrew expressions lately. I use kibitzing to mean informal chat, but with some edge, rather than just polite blather. I'm not referring to unwelcome advice, so I probably shouldn't use the word, since a lot of people take it that way. I use the term "leaner" for someone who comes in with unwanted opinions.
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The money opens the door for the girls to see who I am, and somehow to change the attributes they find to be attractive, that's what's so interesting and amazing to me, and why I am talking about this. Most old people are rejected romantically by young people, because, let’s face it, old isn’t normally as attractive as young.

But when I am with, say, three of the girls at once (and the girls are all bisexual, which is wonderful because they love being in a bunch with me), one will say to the others that don’t they think I have wonderful eyes, or I smell great, or whatnot, and the others agree. They are not in cahoots because they were not close before I put them together.
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Hai, you are what is known in the game as an "easy mark". They'll be hoping to be Ms Rich Guy, despite his protestations. You give them hope for the future that they can lead a grand life without the usual struggle.

Basically you are paying women to pretend to love you, a form of high quality prostitution, and you are seemingly turned on by the fact that you can get women who are not prostitutes to behave as them. A fair few men might enjoy that fantasy, akin to "naughty nurse" and "slutty secretary" sex games, but in real life - turning madonnas into whores, so to speak.

If you are kind and pleasant the women may well come to like you. How many would stand by you if the money ran out? Is that love?
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Haicoway wrote: September 20th, 2018, 11:26 am My primary sugar baby is Israeli, so I am using more Hebrew expressions lately.
Who gives a ****. THIS IS PHILOSOPHY. Not a lonely hearts page for sad old ****.
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Thank you, Greta. I wish I could post the picture of the 21-year-old mixed-race beauty who came for dinner last night. She’s leaning her head and long neck back on her perfectly shaped 107-pound frame lowering a morsel of lobster into her mouth – who needs silverware? – with the most rapturous expression.

She’d heard my reputation at the gym and nervously approached me hoping against hope she could interest me in taking her under my wing so that she could be exposed to finer things. She graduated at the top of her university class, but comes from blue-collar, NYC roots. She’d never had lobster, Bordeaux, Chardonnay, or even listened to classical music before, and she swooned over all of them (especially Liebestraum – and she devoured all the green stuff and the meat behind the head), and more.

No, she doesn’t love me, but she loves the place I am uniquely able to take her. And when you can make someone truly happy, in part because of the money, that is a marvelous gift and even better than being loved. And also for me, it is nearly a miracle that a creature as magical as Olivia chooses to be with me, and only by way of money could that happen.
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Has she tried Rioja?
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There was an episode of The Simpsons in which the eponymous family went on a trip to a candy convention. (The "Gummi Venus de Milo" episode). Marge got sick of candy and took out a stick of celery to eat. A security guard said "M'am, you're going to have to put some sugar on that celery or get out."

I think this is a similar situation.

Haicoway, you're going to have to put some philosophy on this subject or get out.
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I'll get out. Thanks.
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OK. Nice talking to you. It's a pity. I tried to show you a way to put some sugar on it.
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