Daddy’s money is a factor that I never considered till my sister bought it up.
I've mentioned this at least a dozen times on the forum and I'm sure multiple times on this thread. A lot of women are backstopped in every way, especially if you are upper middle class, like you say, it comes out again in this generation. Amazing.
The younger guy is trying to protect his turf. If a bunch of older guys with more resources started dating 20 year olds en masse he’d have an even worse time finding a date. They’d just monopolize them all. It’s my opinion this is the same psychology that makes other guys block you or behave like snakes. They’d rather mess up your chances even if they have no chance themselves.
You are correct, but they aren't even aware of it (it's just visceral/subconcious), and the funnier part is that women their age won't give most of them the time of day anyway, nullifying any point if he even made it.
I think it's a general rule for the normie, who is largely void of talent or ability to compete (whether his fault or not), throughout time to love bringing others down "just because". Communism and any sort of collectivism without some sort of religious principle or buy in from everyone is
always about this. It's also why people who can hack it on their own aren't collectivists, and hate those types, since they are just mad at being incompetent comparatively at least, and are insecure about it.
It's quite clear logically to everyone in the world that you don't get anything because others go down. There's an old Russian saying on this as well, "You don't get to heaven through other people's sins."