Money:

Bryan Caplan:

"Maybe the main reason people don’t want to be married for their money is that we don’t believe that people can love someone for their money. You can feel strong attraction to someone’s personality, looks, intelligence, or success, but not money per se. The catch is that once you start loving someone for one or more of these traits, you often stay in love with them after they fade. You get addicted to the pusher, rather than the drug."

"men almost never fall in love with a women for her money, but some women can fall in love for a man for his money."

"By going to the world market, the typical American man could probably use the lure of citizenship and a First World standard of living to find a wife who is better-looking, younger, and less demanding than he could find in the States. But only an idiot wouldn’t wonder “Maybe she’s just marrying me for the green card and the green.” "