Do "nice guys finish last"?

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

With females?  When they are young, often times yes.  In the long run, no.  All women (notice I said "women", not "girls") like confidence.  For a guy who is confident, being nice is not going to be some kind of turn off.  Being an asshole, though, might very well be. 

In other aspects of life?  It really is completely dependent upon the situation.  I could see why in the good ol' USA this might be a little more true, as competition is a driving force behind the very way we live our lives.  I will say that I think the old idiom is talking less about being generally nice, and more about being a pushover.  No, a man should not be a pushover and expect the things he wants to come his way. 

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Ok, Tony, 99.999999999% of females I've met like confidence.  

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Ok, Tony, 99.999999999% of females I've met like confidence.  

Statistics pulled out of one's ass are then next step. Not a huge improvement, but still an improvement.

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[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Ok, Tony, 99.999999999% of females I've met like confidence. 

Statistics pulled out of one's ass are then next step. Not a huge improvement, but still an improvement.

Bolded, recolored, underlined, and resized.  Have a brief relaxation, Tony.

Apologies for not noticing that bit. This certainly makes your case much better (though in this case your post implies that you have met more than 100 billion women... which I somehow doubt ).

Rounds up to 100%.  I've yet to meet a girl, and get to know a girl (straight), who does not find confidence in men to be attractive. 

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

People are only 'nice' due to real disadvantages - typically class origin disadvantages and genetic disadvantages.  So, you can't really blame the niceness for losing - it is not a causative factors but merely a symptom of being subjected.

Conversely, women don't necessarily actually prefer an 'asshole' in some way purely focused on the rudeness - no, this is just a valuable and uselful shorthand signifyer for 'rich and/or genetically superior'. 

This leaves us the interesting possiblity that the poor man (or ugly man) could, by utilizing this behavior shorthand for privilege, gain at least temporarily the advantages! 

Have any of you impecunious and humpbacked losers ever pulled off this pretense successfully?  I must confess I have never even tried such a daring con!

First off.  LMAO.  Second, they try it all the time.  Seems to only work on girls who are also poors but think that they are riches.  You can see why.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

This works all the time in real life, Opebo. Just not ever with the kind of girls you'd like it to work on.

I'm assuming you mean 'the kind of girls that one would like it to work on', rather than just referring to my preference.  So upon what kind of girls does it work?  The gullible only??

Just the dumbs, which is a huge number of them in this day and age, unfortunately.  (or fortunately, depending on what you go for)