In my experience it also depends on the woman's current life situation. If the woman's life is in self-perceived disarray at any age, she will look for beta bucks to bring stability. The woman has to be the one who reflects on her life and says, "there's something deeply wrong with this picture" for her to develop a beta need. I live in a developing country, and a common situation here is that a lot of college-age women look for sugar daddies to date. Here's a documentary showing the phenomenon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJIpE5wT\_Ec . Some of these beta-seeking college women are objectively broke and some are actually rich kids, but the unifying factor is that they look at their own lives and think that it's largely in some sort of disarray that needs fixing. This is a blind spot in red pill literature, since it's written by authors in developed countries, where the most common situation of self-perceived disarray in women is "the wall."

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If the woman's life is in self-perceived order, she will now be available look for alpha fucks. As an example, Yum The Boss is a fat, childless stripper/pornstar approaching 40. Sounds to you like her life is a mess, right? But look at the following interview and she gives a vibe that she is genuinely fine with her life as it is. Hence when she is asked what type of man she prefers, she states mainly alpha traits (timestamped link) https://youtu.be/\_cAX1ey0d2s?t=733

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In conclusion, alpha seeking/beta seeking is triggered by more than just "the wall." A broader view is that it's triggered by self-perceived disarray in the woman's life, or lack thereof.