cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3768443
Researchers estimate that each additional centimeter of height is associated with a 1.30% increase in annual income.
i wonder about confounding variables like childhood nutrition. in a study like this height may actually be a proxy for socioeconomic status.
edit: and if i’d bothered to read the article i’d have noticed it said exactly that:
Instead, the authors favor an “early environment” explanation, such that people who grow up in healthy, constructive environments become taller, smarter, and more successful than those who grow up in impoverished, destructive environments.
Most rational economic system thats totally a meritocracy bro trust us
Yet here I am: 6’7" and can’t find a job
Nobody can afford to pay you your $120k salary.
I think of it as a little bonus earned by crying myself to sleep from growing pains
Don’t forget that constant little twinge in the back when you’re older from a lifetime of slight bending because tabletops, sinks, and other everyday designs are all just a few inches out of reach.
Median income in US: $74580
Median height in US: 175cm (5’9")
Jeff Bezos’s income in 2023: $70 billion
Jeff Bezos’s estimated height: 530cm (17’4")
At a 100,000,000% salary increase, I make Bezos to be about thirty million inches taller.
This would suggest his space flight didn’t even reach his own knees.
I assumed it was exponential.
74580 * 1.013^355
That’s how it’s phrased, but with their numbers quoted the 6’4" guy gets $107,919 vs a linear scaling giving $103,740. The latter rounds to the $104,000 stated, so I’m assuming that’s the intended reading
actually it’s just guys named Kyle
Jokes and incel catastrophizing aside, lookism is indeed a thing with material consequences in society. People just like conventionally-attractive people more and that leads to preferential treatment.
Time to wear absurdly long stilts so I’ll be a billionaire
Damn Brace really is rich
when the ridiculous aliens in Invader Zim have a more consistent society
we need a tall guy tax and short guy reparations but nobody gives a shit because they either have bigger legitimate problems (racism, misogyny, etc) or they want to be andrew tate.
this is super funny to me, a short person who can’t reach the top shelves of her cabinets
In defense of tall dudes like my husband, they’re already paying a Personal Comfort tax: they’re constantly bonking their heads into things, and their legs don’t fit anywhere.
he can wipe his tears with the extra 3.3%
Living like a king with my extra 3.3% of fuck all.
Tall people also need to eat more just because they’re tall. That effects monthly food expenses.
Tall people food grants/welfare when lol?
PLEASE jfc 😭 that man can EAT 😂
between him our teen son, there is no keeping food in this house
Making $189,000 a year is my 9’11"
people take taller people more seriously, associate them with leadership when maybe it’s not warranted. it’s not an accident that the vast majority of CEOs and practically every president is >6’ and so many lie about their height or wear lifts or whatever.
Maybe the gender pay gap was actually the height pay gap all along
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