The Greatest Privilege We Hardly Talk About: Beauty

For many people, their sense of self-worth is intimately bound up with their physical strength, good looks, fitness, and external appearance.

That is because beauty isn’t actually what you look like; beauty is the preferences that reproduce the existing social order.

Don’t underestimate the power of attractive people. We are swayed most by those we think are similar to us. Associating an object with a celebrity or an attractive person will make the object more attractive, too.