When did I become a depreciating asset?

A Craigslist.com posting from a "beautiful" 25-year-old woman searching for man who made $500,000 to marry made national headlines when a man replied: “In economic terms, you are a depreciating asset and I am an earning asset,” he wrote, because “your looks will fade and my money will likely continue into perpetuity.”

Many women today try to combat time and this "depreciating" through plastic surgery. This war on the body isn't new but has been enhanced by technology and the media. Another article last week from the New York Times highlighted plastic surgery post-pregnancy.

In an informational email sent out weekly by my University to all students was an announcement for a facial plastic seminar. During the seminar, a doctor is going to speak about "Preventing and Erasing the Signs of Aging." His focus is going to be on Botox, Restylane, "mini-lift," and the other "minimally invasive techniques now available to re-beautify the face." Was this announcment missing its target audience or does the doctor think I need a "mini-lift" at 22?

A group of college women standing outside my lecture hall the other day were talking about how it wasn't too late to start using anti-aging cream. In the group of four, two had already starting using anti-aging cream.

Maybe I've already started depreciating. I guess I will have to settle for someone who makes less than six figures.