Everyone knows not being MGTOW is incredibly expensive. You have to pay for dates, girlfriends expectations, trips you don't want to go on, charities you don't want to support, movies you don't want to see, restaurants where the food sucks, your drinks, her drinks, her club entry, your club entry, gifts for her friends, baby showers, etc.

Much less when you get to a cohabitation relationship. Now you have to rent or buy in the right neighborhood where she feels safe, getting a home that she feels comfortable in. More rooms than you need, going outside your agreed upon budget for things, cable channels she wants, air-conditioning and heating at her levels, throwing away all the furniture you're perfectly happy with in exchange for debt with a furniture company to get a nice feminine suite of furniture and paisley sheets in the bed you sleep in.

Naturally, there's all the divorce aspects, child costs, alimony, your lawyers, her lawyers, court fees, jail, rape, abuse, homelessness.

But that's not what I'm writing about, those aren't hidden costs, but I never get tired of typing them out.

The hidden costs are the sneaky ones you probably never thought of.

Why do guys play video games? Why do guys play or watch sports? Why do guys fuck with each other and play jokes and dominate conversations? Because we're a competitive bunch. We like to win over other men. We like to beat the high score. And if we individually aren't beating them, we want our tribe to beat another tribe. We want to beat the Patriots (sorry Atlanta), we like to invade other countries. We get off on war. We love the power.

So where am I going with this.

The issue is all about pussy. It is written into mens' evolution to compete against one another for magic vagina on hopefully the prettiest female. I say prettiest female because pretty much internally they're identical. Just like guys are. Externally is the only real differences. There's some intelligence differences and a few other things, but we primarily judge women based on looks and if they aren't the fattest hog in the pen.

So what's the cost? The cost is competition with one another.

You buy better clothing to look better, you hit the gym, primarily to loo ripped, secondarily to be healthy (two things women want). We buy sports cars because vrooooom. We're richer, we're faster, gotta chase that pussy and impress it.

I need a house bigger than yours so I can fuck your wife, or impress some other chick to think I have the financial resources to give her a well-feathered nest because I'm mentally retarded.

It was never keeping up with the Joneses, it was getting ahead of Fred Jones cuz his wife was hot (or his daughter) and you wanted to tap that shit, or better shit. And emasculate Fred so I look better.

Think about the shit you actually like. Somewhere to live? Video games? Porn? A good computer and fast internet? What do you really want and need?

Do you drive an inexpensive clunker, not because you're poor, but because it's only what you need to get from A to B? When you think about buying some sports car, why are you really buying it? Why spend $120k on a Mercedes? Does it really have that many important features than an Altima? Or is it so you can compete with other men for magic pussy? Whether its just to impress the pussy or just make other men feel lesser than you, but why are you doing it?

Because we chase pussy. Subconsciously. You could just get your clothes at Walmart and Goodwill and not waste money at all. But instead its spend spend spend your resources.

So if you really want to go MGTOW, make the effort to stop yourself from wasting money on shit to compete with other men. Do you wear contacts and get LASIK instead of using glasses for a good reason (like not losing your glasses) or because you want to look better? And if so why?

Are you cycling through new cars and paying thousands to fix a tiny dent in the bumper because you might look less than perfect? Is it pride or just worried what someone else might think of you, and therefore you'll have lowered value directly or indirectly to a woman for a relationship?

How much of your wealth is spent on hobbies that you're truly interested in or hobbies that might make you look cool to people that don't matter just to appear better than you are for a mate or just look better against other men?