You Can't Buy Love...Wrong
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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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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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"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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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....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.
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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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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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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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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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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