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Survival of the Prettiest

Posted By Elisa On 4th April 2006 @ 12:04 In lookism, rankist dystopia | No Comments

More than half of the people who took last week’s Monster opinion poll believe [1] cosmetic surgery could advance their career. Surveys have confirmed that beauty confers a [2] social advantage that translates into unearned income. Workers have started to [3] file lawsuits to protect themselves from appearance-based discrimination, but some economists are arguing that [4] survival of the prettiest is an attribute of a free society. In other words, it’s human to make distinctions and humiliate others in the process of forming hierarchies: if the free citizen wants to redistribute income from skill and experience to the sexually desirable, so be it. Perhaps the economists might reconsider their position when people start [5] killing for plastic surgery money.

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[1] cosmetic surgery could advance their career: http://forums.monster.com/poll.asp?pollid=8730
[2] social advantage: http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2005/04/18/29307/Overweight+and+underpaid+as+'lookism'+sweeps
+the+world.htm
[3] file lawsuits: http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050620/BUSINESS/506200301/1003
[4] survival of the prettiest: http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/19_2/19_2_2.pdf
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