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Source? No man I know, friends, relatives, aquaintences has ever given the income of a woman as a reason for marrying them. The primary reason has been looks or personality. Some of them have got married because of family. Never once have I encounterd anyone giving their future partners earning potential as a reason. It might be common in the group of people you mix with but not for me.

>>drumhe+(OP)
Contrary to popular opinion - physical attractiveness and intelligence are highly correlated: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

Higher IQs are correlated with higher incomes, too: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230208125113.h...

Anecdata source of one - but most of my friends from college who could've ended up with many many women ended up with women that had super rich parents, and most of the women that everyone was crazy about ended up with men with rich parents.

None of them claim to have married for money - but from the outside - the odds seem to be that at least some of them probably did.

>>drumhe+(OP)
>No man I know, ... has ever given the income of a woman as a reason for marrying them.

that may correlate with it being considered uncouth to have such considerations in mind.