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bitcurious • today at 12:32 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

Something like one in five married men has cheated on their spouse, approx one in eight women. It’s not that tech CEOs are “like this” it’s that they are not that different from other people, outside of their professional skills.

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somenameforme • today at 1:59 AM

That number would be dramatically higher in scenarios where men had desirable women basically throwing themselves at them, which is the case for the extremely wealthy. This somehow reminds me of the Churchill joke:

    Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for $1 million?
    Woman: Why Winston, yes I would.
    Churchill: How about $10?
    Woman: What sort of woman do you think I am?
    Churchill: We've already established that. Now we're just negotiating the price.
And I think this is all a logical consequence of evolution, which is driven solely by fertility. A woman can only carry one child at a time and so it makes sense for them to seek a highly qualified/'resourceful' partner to have the most chance of her genes being successfully carried forward, whereas a man can theoretically father hundreds of children in a single year, so it makes sense for him to be more 'driven.'
qgin • today at 2:00 AM

Studies show percentages all the way up to 40-50%, depending on methodologies and definitions.

geraneum • today at 1:03 AM

> it’s that they are not that different from other people

For this conclusion to be valid, you have to provide the proportion of tech ceos who cheat.

serf • today at 1:02 AM

So you don't think the world's most powerful and richest people engage in infidelity more often than the guy that cleans the toilets at the local gas station?

every argument that attempts to humanize and 'us too' these types of folks (billionaires that own islands and ultra-yachts) totally bewilders me.

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