Many studies have shown that being ugly is actually an economic disadvantage: it's a fact that good looking people make more money than ugly ones.
But if you've got a face that only a mother could love, take heart. Economics professor Daniel S. Hamermesh of the University of Texas at Austin has a legal solution: affirmative action for ugly people!
Why this disparate treatment of looks in so many areas of life? It’s a matter of simple prejudice. Most of us, regardless of our professed attitudes, prefer as customers to buy from better-looking salespeople, as jurors to listen to better-looking attorneys, as voters to be led by better-looking politicians, as students to learn from better-looking professors. This is not a matter of evil employers’ refusing to hire the ugly: in our roles as workers, customers and potential lovers we are all responsible for these effects.
How could we remedy this injustice? With all the gains to being good-looking, you would think that more people would get plastic surgery or makeovers to improve their looks. Many of us do all those things, but as studies have shown, such refinements make only small differences in our beauty. All that spending may make us feel better, but it doesn’t help us much in getting a better job or a more desirable mate.
A more radical solution may be needed: why not offer legal protections to the ugly, as we do with racial, ethnic and religious minorities, women and handicapped individuals?
Never the less: "Many studies have shown that being ugly is actually an economic disadvantage."
So you are ok with discrimination then?
Besides, someone else might find beautiful someone that I find ugly.
(FYI, I'll take bribes.)
And he looks like the product of non-consensual sex between Frankenstein and a Bull Moose and Moe Howard.
As a matter of fact, most billionaires are not particularly attractive; some look like total crap.
Malcolm Gladwell looks weird.
So does Stephen J Dubner from Freakonomics.
There are always radio, writing, computer programmer, and stock trader jobs.
They don't require much interaction, or people seeing your face.
Don't forget radio, podcasts & voice acting.
Prejudice is generally not a conscious act.
Exceptions to categories do not invalidate categories but merely demonstrated the arbitrariness of all categories.
Beauty as a category owes itself to its opposite ugly.
"All animals were created equal but some were created more equal than others."
"So you are ok with discrimination then?"
Life isn't fair. There are people who are smarter than I am, faster than I am, better looking than I am, stronger than I am. Others are far more lucky, having been born into wealthier, better connected, more loving families than I was. Some have better health. A lot of these people will fare much better in life than I will.
#24 - Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
Originally published in the Sacramento Union in 1988.
And who would want to be labelled as "ugly"? Hands? Anyone? Bueller? ... Bueller? ...
My wife hides from me till she falls asleep. Customers run to gay guys before they let me help them. Small children run screaming to their mothers, who shriek when I ask if I can help them.
If you're a good-looking person, don't laugh to hard, I dare you to walk in my size 14 shoes.