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Man, oktrends<\/a> is interesting. I feel like it dispels a lot of myth, especially ones that would have been beneficial to eliminate. All that is missing from The Big Lies in Online Dating<\/a> is real versus reported penis length. So, “The Patented OkCupid Income Revelator Machine” reveals that a 28 year old male living in Georgetown (98108) is likely to be making $25,670. 98101 (Downtown) reports $28,850. Ignoring the 404 errors in the applet, this seems to scale up to shy of $50,000 at age 50. I suppose, living in a tech city, I would expect this higher, but it’s only high tech for a few people, the upper class. Even my tech friends don’t live extravagant lifestyles, so this is easy to forget, as most of my friends live paycheck to paycheck as cheaply as possible. It’s only starting to sink in that I’m upper class.<\/p>\n

I feel like linking to a class structure and labeling myself relative to it would be giving away too much. Except for my closest friends whose ear I turn to for guidance, I get by telling people I make ‘more than enough money’. I need to read the wikipedia page on social class<\/a> more when I get a chance. For the purposes of this discussion, let’s just say I get paid above average. Part of not answering what range my income is in, is this taboo, in at least my industry, against talking about it with other people. I wonder how far spread that is.<\/p>\n

If you’re 23 or older and don’t make much money, go die in a fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So obviously this brings us back to my fathers recent drop about how I should buy a new truck because my image may be keeping me from finding the women I want. Now, all of my friends I’ve discussed this with, were immediately of my opinion, that my image keeps me from finding the woman that I don’t<\/strong> want. Now there’s an argument that the diamond in the rough would be filtering out women who I would have reciprocal interest with but who skip me over like i do girls whose photos are all of them drinking with their girl friends in a bar, and not take the time to get to know me. I don’t believe this is a real issue. These situations say something about someone.<\/p>\n

What’s the likely-hood of meeting a romantic interest who makes nearly as much as I do but lives as nearly non-materialistically as I do? Probably pretty slim. But I care about the latter much more than the former, and I’m much more interested in how people live than how much money they make.<\/p>\n

In the “How Many Messages a Man Gets, by Age and Income” heat-map, it leaves out the group that doesn’t answer, but the message is clear that admitting my incoming would earn me more messages. Earn… Yeah, see that’s the problem. I wonder how much of this is a product of socializing mostly with people who don’t make a lot of money, or being taboo, or about morality?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man, oktrends is interesting. I feel like it dispels a lot of myth, especially ones that would have been beneficial to eliminate. All that is missing from The Big Lies in Online Dating is real versus reported penis length. So, “The Patented OkCupid Income Revelator Machine” reveals that a 28 year old male living in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}