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Re:Hypergamy: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by suoduandao2 on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @06:17AM (#36056013)
Regarding the 'looks don't matter, class does' hypothesis discussed in the article, does anyone know whether attractiveness correlates with social class? Seems like a weird thing to assume is uncorrelated.
Re:Hypergamy: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by ununoctium87 on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @06:25AM (#36056070)
It strongly correlated with wealth, which itself strongly correlates with status/class
Re:Hypergamy: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by red-iron-pine on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @10:57AM (#36059028)
Or as someone else put it:

Good looks are a function of 1) Genetics, 2) Effort, and 3) Money -- pick two.

Like, if you ain't naturally gifted it takes a bunch of time and cash (clothes, gym membership, makeup, expensive haircuts, etc.) to compensate -- but you can. Lord knows I'm a walking, talking ogre but can pull it off by putting in the effort.

But lots of effort requires the time and ability to invest the energy -- which implies money -- and then there is the literal 3) Money, which aside from clothes and makeup is also things like plastic surgery, teeth whitening, etc.

Re:Hypergamy: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by djmips on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @06:59AM (#36056293)
It was mentioned in the comments/notes after the article.