You can't fight a million years of evolution. Hypergamy[1] is a real thing. As you observe, the author of the piece strongly signals low social status and confi

You can't fight a million years of evolution. Hypergamy[1] is a real thing. As you observe, the author of the piece strongly signals low social status and confirms it by declaring his lack of mating success. Fortunately for him, and others in his predicament, there are ways to signal higher social status and thus increase mating success[2]. Human behavior is far more complex than animal behavior, but pragmatically we should still understand a behavior such as going to medical school and becoming a doctor to be, in addition to its other purposes, an observably effective status increasing display. When it comes to mate preferences and thus what kind of display behaviors will be successful, always look at revealed preference and always ignore stated preference, as the latter is observably less accurate and matches revealed preference when it is. As this can be an emotionally sensitive subject I'll not offer examples, but many will readily come to mind on some consideration. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_(zoology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_(zoology)