@Horace said in Oh oh...here comes a new "privilege".:
or expects society to compensate for it.
I'd say it already does. I can't think of a better example than influencer marketing. (Pre-COVID, anyway. The game's gotten weird out there. I hope to the point that it completely deflates but hey, wishful thinking.)
Good-looking young people who have the right uniform and speak American English make great influencers. For every ugly guy out there netting 1 follower for his cooking advice, influencers are raking in 1,000 for yet another hackneyed reel shilling their avocado bullshit. And so the latter amass a following without trying very hard. Which meant that traditionally, companies would reach out to them for product deals. Because bigger audience.
Except the quality of that bigger audience is garbage. It's mostly thirsty sleazes and wannabe influencers themselves. Ugly guy, for his smaller audience, converts a shitload higher percentage into buyers because his ugliness self-screens for unengaged followers. If you're listening to him, it's not because you like what he's wearing. It's because you're into cooking.
A lot of micro-influencers are normal-looking moms, retired grandpas or immigrants who know how to do things others are interested in. They're starting to get a lot more traction as companies develop a rudimentary education in social media statistics.
Whether you're pretty or ugly, it makes no difference. Either way it'll make some things easier, other things harder.
But yeah I still agree, the social justice bandwagon is inevitably comin' to town.
