Where high-net-worth circles actually are: cities, neighborhoods, sectors, clubs and seasons. Geography before seduction.
Most articles on this subject give you the same list: luxury hotels, charity galas, Palm Beach, the Hamptons, elite dating apps. Those places exist. They work badly, and this article explains why. The problem isn’t that they’re wrong. It’s that they’re evaluated on the wrong criterion. The grid nobody applies A venue is judged on … Read more
Start with the observation that explains everything else: dating apps reproduce social segregation instead of crossing it. The reason is mechanical. Apps optimize for match rate. So they show you the profiles you will match with — which is to say, profiles from your own world. They are built to reproduce the filter, not to … Read more
First, a definition problem worth clearing up: the word millionaire no longer means what it did. A net worth of one million dollars excluding a primary residence describes a large share of American households — the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances puts the figure in the millions of households. That is no longer an … Read more