))) Who said anything about buying? What are we in Saudi Arabia? No. It is called a high maintenance cost. A beautiful woman has lots of offers as everybody want her. Lots of men are trying to gain her attention. So she can have a lot to choose from.
One man lives in a small apartment and another one in a penthouse or in a mansion. One man drives Honda and anther one drives Rolls Royce. One man offers to take her to the movies and another one takes her to a beautiful vacation in Fiji or all around Europe.
What is so insulting about it? And this isn't something that happening today. Have you read Jack London's novel "Martyn Eaden"? Exactly the same situation. Martyn meets a girl, who is much higher than him in social status. He is taken not only by her beauty but by her education and culture. She also likes him, but despite liking him she dumps him. However, when Martyn becomes a famous writer, she now loves all his stories at which she sneered before and even goes at night in his hotel hoping to compel him to marry her in this way.
Another novel is "American tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser. Characters are different, circumstances are different, but the problem is the same. The main character Clyde Griffiths is a poor man who wants to elevate his social status through marriage fells in love with the rich girl Sondra Finchley and she's contemplating marrying him as well. The problem is Clyde has a pregnant girlfriend Roberta, who he also loves but who now stands in his way. So he takes her to the lake and drowns her. The pinnacle of the tragedy is hidden though. The thing is that Roberta - a nice and a pretty girl, whom Clyde picked from many many workers likes him also because for her he is a man of a higher social status than she is.
Half of all the World's famous novels is exactly about this. A man loves a woman, but she prefers another one because he's rich. Dickens "Great Expectations."
It might be insulting, but this is how it is. )))
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