geK0 said:
....actually I think it's the content of a man's wallet that attracts a lot of people x D.
edit: not saying all women are gold diggers, but social status is a thing.
Social status is mainly behavioural though. People tend to adjust their behaviour to wealth, but the primary indicator is still how they act.
People can act either high or low status, dominant or submissive. Wealth tends to influence their decisions regarding their own status, but it's the behaviour that controls what they broadcast to others.
For instance with the right behaviour you can make a wealthier guy submit.
To name a concrete example, the drug addiction centre where I work as a security guard for a sidejob next to my study houses the countermeasure programs for drunk drivers. They're compelled to follow the courses when caught drunk driving, and have to pay for it themselves (? 750) and have their license revoked when there.
Some clearly rich guy came in judging by the car in which his wife dropped him off and the clothes he had on, but he was horribly late. I was outside then talking to another client.
The psychiatrist that runs the course refused to take him, and he lost it because he'd have to pay all that money a second time and have his license revoked untill he could come back and finish the second course (which starts over a month later).
He came across threateningly, because the receptionist called me and I went in. He was authoritarian and assuming a dominant position. He was trying to overshadow the receptionist and get him to open the door. So I approached him as he was yelling, getting slightly too close and leaning forward just a tiny bit to create the idea I'm leaning over him, and adress him while keeping my voice low as can be (my voice is fairly deep naturally) to explain we don't apreciate him raising his voice, and the psychiatrist's decision was final, adding it was his fault. He looked at me only for a second before he raised his voice again, but now higher and talking quicker, a submissive posture. My words aren't intimidating or threatening, but polite as one expects in a formal conversation.
In that case, my uniform, body language, position of authority as the centre's enforcer and the knowledge in his mind that I would win any form of violent confrontation between us combine to make him adjust from a dominant to a submissive posture. It didn't take more than a few seconds for him to back down and call his wife to pick him up.
While I'd be surprised if I had even a tenth of what he owns.
