Posted on 08/30/2011 6:31:43 AM PDT by katiedidit1
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at neatorama.com ...
Does this mean Maxine Waters and Helen Thomas should receive free plastic surgery?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2770451/posts
Similar thread. Hope this one doesn’t suffer similar blight.
“as voters to be led by better-looking politicians”
thus highlighting a major signpost on the road to serfdom, and illustrating the difficulty in rescuing civilization:
- half of the people believe we elect politicians to be our bosses
- half of the people believe we elect politicians to be our employees
these two philosophies are in diametric opposition, and the first half seems to be increasing ...
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! too funny
It is absurd. We have ugly people in power..Reich, Maxine Waters and many more. As for Fox News they do have Alan Colmes and Imus is no looker either.
Im on board with this one. Free Government Rogaine !!! I have the right to have hair like everyone else !!!!
It means free federal money and job preference for me!
My ship finally came in...
We demand fairness for all UGLO-AMERICANS!
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