Warning, this article is a complete joke and not based on reality, there is not one iota of truth to it.  Read it at your own risk.  It is a story about pump and dump. 

Let's step into the cold world of dating without love... marriage without love.   Let's call it a business deal. 

Ah... my misleading headlines...  I don't mean can a woman buy beauty... I mean can a man buy a woman, or more directly.. buy a beautiful woman?  The real underlying question is why would he?  Take for instance the tale of a trading position.  Think of it.  Men are like stock traders on wall street.  They are an earning asset.   From a superficial point of view in the world of single people... men grow in value.  They increase their income, and their looks don't generally fade.  And looks in a man are not what makes them attractive.  It's their money.  Women find men attractive based on how much they are worth... monetarily.   If man is a earning asset then a woman is a depreciating asset.  Her beauty is her commodity.

Think of it.  A woman is beautiful today.  She nails down a great guy and what happens?  For few years she is beautiful.  She's young, upbeat, keeping herself fit etc...  But in a few short years... time takes it's toll.   In traders terms this woman is a depreciating asset while the man is an earning asset.  She could be petulant and selfish, the deal is still brokered on beauty.   Marriage under these circumstances with a woman is not an efficient market, while dating is.   Men have learned that in order to avoid being pumped (married) and dumped (divorced and looted) they've delineated that marriage is too risky and investment to embark on when they would be obviously investing in a depreciating asset.  It is for this very reason men do not invest themselves in marriage when dating is a better option.   While women may say they are being honest (to insulate their conscience), they are futily attempting to convince themselves they are not any more superficial than men when in fact they are both superficial and shallow.  In this capacity a woman only identifies her femininity diameterically to a man's  greater income.  His masculinity is predicated on his worth.  His worth is only validated by her in dollars.  

WRITERS NOTE: I could have just as easily written an article on love being the greatest commodity of all.  I don't generally head into negative territory and decided some tongue and cheek would really hit home for some readers.  There is no economy of scale in which a woman becomes an appreciating asset except in the realm of love.