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Okay, so, realistically, if the guy in the article wants a woman to be in the dark as to what his net worth is, he'd need to:

1. Use a fake name.

2. Create a fake story as to what he's been up to for the last five years professionally.

3. Get an ordinary apartment, car, clothes, etc. all for the purpose of appearing to have regular income.

4. Get his friends to support his fake name, fake life, fake career story, etc.

5. Get his family to support his fake name, fake life, fake career story, etc.

You don't think all that counts as lying?

I think you do have a point about him trying to buy what you are "supposed" to buy once you are wealthy.

However, I think that your robot criticism of entrepreneurs is unfair.

Street sweepers, cashiers at a grocery store, McDonald's employees are doing work that is way more repetitive than what an average entrepreneur does, yet you wouldn't call them robot-like, would you?

I don't know if I'd be impressed if a guy did this.

In theory, this sounds like a fairytale, an ordinary guy turns out to be a multi-millionaire.

In practice, this means that he lied to my face the entire time, presumably got his family and friends to lie to me as well, because apparently the entire time we were dating he thought that I might be a gold digger?

Creating an entire separate identity because of your gold digger paranoia doesn't seem like a healthy behavior.