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CMV: I believe being born into a low income family is less of a disadvantage than being born physically unattractive.

Like being born into a wealthy family, attractive people will always have better opportunities, pre-established social connections and status, will initially command more respect, the *potential* for more exposure to culture and education and a significantly easier time achieving long term goals due to the aforementioned.

* Because I have an ethnic name, I actually get a significantly reduced number of callbacks for interviews when using my legal name in my job application. I replicated this from a study that looked into the same issue, by creating two identities and using a neutral last name i.e. Smith, on the latter. I believe unattractive people face a similar problem of being able to get their foot through the door. Studies show that people will immediately notice the tallest person in a group, unless there is significant case of a person being short, e.g. dwarfism. Unattractive people are often overlooked, and people are less likely to remember them.
* Unattractive will have more issues regarding self-esteem. The detriments of being complimented on physical appearance aside, not being viewed in a favourable light, especially in adolescent to early adulthood can have long lasting ramifications - especially when people learn that appearance plays a big role in success. There are things people can do to even the playing field - wear nice clothes, consider the significance of scent to desirability, the use of wit and rhetoric - but these are things EVERYONE has to consider. Adhering to these rules does not give you an edge over anyone else observing them as well.
* People are nicer to attractive people, whether they realize it or not. Studies show that we want approval from attractive people, because we implicitly believe that their opinion is of more value. Just to add a tangential point, having attractive friends, like in one study where participants were asked to rate people based on their Facebook friends, also improves people's perception of you. So being attractive actually helps those around you.
* Unattractive people will always have to try harder, this goes double if you're not-good-looking and are of an ethnicity that is not of the norm of your country/region.

Just to counter a likely argument I'll hear, I am aware character and virtue are more valuable traits in the long term. But my argument is the limitations set by a person's looks are much more difficult to overcome, create a massive gap in terms of social capitol assuming other variables remain constant, and is virtually permanent.
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I think the perfect way to change your view is to imagine 2 scenarios. You have a person born into a rich family who is unattractive, and a person born into a low income family who is attractive. In this scenario these 2 each are white, male and get identical grades in high school. Now it is very likely that the person born into a rich family goes to a much better school, because they either grew up in a better neighborhood or went to a private school. Attractive low income family person is immediately put at a disadvantage because even though he gets the same grades as the other person, his location effects the chances he will get. Because of this unattractive rich person has a much better chance of getting into a nice college, or any college for that matter. The attractive poor person can't afford a nice college, and even if they could their chances of getting into that college are small because their high school was weak. Unattractive rich person graduates from college with some degree, while attractive poor person can barely afford community college gets, in the best case scenario, an associates degree.

The amount of job opportunities for a 4 year degree are much higher than those of a 2 year degree. Yes the unattractive person may have a disadvantage in job interviews, but he would still earn far more interviews than the attractive person simply because of his status. Yes the attractive person may be better at job interviews, but once again he will get far fewer job interviews in the first place than unattractive person.