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    If one person becomes much more attractive, that mostly benefits them, because they move up in the status competition....
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    We already have this fantastic circumstance, it’s just called clothes. Some people choose to dress up, some don’t, some...
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    I think a weaker and still desirable outcome to The End Of Beauty Standards is that people won’t fixate all on the same...
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    So…I think that there are (at least) two mostly-separate psychological phenomena that manifest as The Dream of Being...
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    Endorsed.Additionally, is not a world where beauty is determined by how fashionable you are, and not how you were born,...
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  23. nuclearspaceheater reblogged this from discoursedrome and added:
    That’s only true if the thing in question is 100% positional. If it has both a positional and absolute component, then...
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    I think the actual position that people unconsciously hold is that we’ll stop having beauty standards, in the same way...
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    Beauty has two parts: the status from being beautiful (I am using beautiful to mean any kind of physical aesthetic...
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    Count me as totally down for a world where I have perfect posture and skin made of advanced polymer composites and I...
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    IMO it’d obviously change a ton even if everyone got upgraded. Comparative status is not the only way in which people...
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    beauty is not just a positional good, or at least it doesn’t feel like it. improving everyone’s looks would make things...
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    sometimes I fantasize about how nice it’d be to just automatically look really great all the time, like perfect skin,...
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