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I wonder how many of these deaths are due to the fear of living in destitution, because Canada's overall QOL has plummeted in the last decade.

When people start throwing ad hominems, and incredulous suggestions of getting therapy, that's when I know they know they have no argument.

I find it cliched but still interesting that the rebuttals to my opinion on this particular topic are so vitriolic and laden with, as the poster above you has done,ad hominems and emphatic statements of incredulity. It kind of supports the assertion that ugly people are so disliked that to even suggest that they might be at a severe disadvantage is fought against because giving them even a smidge of sympathy or acknowledgement due to the accident of their birth is simply untenable. It might also stem from a rejection of the concept due to inciting hopelessness in the rejector should they accept it as true. Or maybe it's unconscious yet ill informed benevolent dishonesty.

Nevertheless, there are countless scientific studies outlining the severe disadvantage ugliness inflicts on people in all aspects of life. This has been magnified by social media.

You can't really "bootstraps mentality" physical attractiveness outside of weight control. All the confidence in the world won't help a goblin be desirable. Plus, personality is as genetic as looks, and some people just aren't wired for extroversion.

I fear that pushing a bootstraps narrative for ugly people will just result in unwarranted self blame.

I often wonder whether there's a correlation between the reduction in a company's profitability and quality with its decision to hire cheaper offshore workers, or insourcing cheaper workers from abroad. I wonder if the smart money did any type of internal studies regarding this type of correlation.

Most of what determines the success of a social introduction made in hopes of gaining a physical partner for men is predicated on their physical attractiveness, mostly through genetically determined factors such as height, facial bone structure, and other non modifiable characteristics.

Studying your own social interactions to see where you may have gone wrong is likely a fool's errand. Physical attraction is determined visually in milliseconds, which means there's little to nothing you can change via behaviors to increase success in that way.

The rise of simp apps like onlyfans reflects the total desperation of men who fail to meet the genetic standards for looks. You are correct that the reach of social media is responsible as it has isolated most average men, as attractive men are always a swipe away for any woman who is looking.

While your suggestion to be more social is healthy and helpful for most daily interactions, looking for partners requires more than just that, it requires looks.

It already exists. It's called Meek's Cutoff.

Maybe that's why people are like that, but I think it's more baked into most people than we care to admit. I think part of our human wiring is to have faith. It used to be in deities, now it is in "science!" Humans, most of them anyway, are also wired to follow authority blindly. I really don't think there's any way around it. It's not that people refuse to be skeptical, it's that they are probably incapable of it.

That's a good point. Perhaps journal article reviewers fail to realize the importance of those words in the grand scheme.

People misinterpret science as being a collection of facts discovered by authority figures rather than a process of questioning the validity of any claims made. It's almost as if the concept of science has turned into the religion of the atheist. Unquestionable, and dictated by more holy figures than them, in the form of scientists, and in some cases politicians, rather than clergy.

Credentials and skill levels differ widely worldwide. Many developing countries lack the infrastructure to train doctors for modern medicine, and the degree of corruption in those countries increases the risk of unqualified or questionable practitioners.

This is not the right way to improve access.

Mass importation of cheap labor and rent serfs certainly does have an effect on worsening the cost of housing for citizens. It's simple supply and demand economics. To dismiss criticism of the current human quantitative easing that's occurring as merely nativism is reductive. The smart money is buying property because they know there will always be demand for it. Adding over 1 million people a year to the nation ensures that their investments will remain profitable. People talk about systemic change but I wonder what that would be. Effective policies that would have prevented this situation would have been a reasonable immigration strategy coupled with stricter application of money laundering penalties, but that horse is out of the barn now.

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What's your reasoning here?

Per capita they are at the bottom.

To imply, as you have, that genetics doesn't influence sports skill to a great degree is preposterous.

I used that country as an example because it is the major source of workers for tech wage suppression in the states. There is no evidence of any danger that the same negative pressure on athletics will occur.

Rushing to accuse me of racism because you disagree is offensive.