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Majority of people assume all attractive people have the upper hand in all industries. Simply not true. Hospitality, consulting, sales, retail, entertainment, fashion are where attractiveness is rewarded and necessary. Most small and large corporate companies have jealousy rampant and its proven they discriminate against highly atttractive applicants. Look at the recent headlines of lawsuits from attractive females in the business world whose bosses and coworkers made their lives miserable because they are deemed "a distraction" and presumed to sleep their way to the top. I don't know what the answers are to stop any sort of discrimination, but it seems people need to look at themselves and deal with their own securities before projecting unfairly onto others

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Selecting employees for attractiveness indicates slack somewhere, whether it's in your own organization or in the organization that hires you.  This extends to many jobs that have an explicit focus on visual appearance, such as modelling; if consumers are more likely to buy clothing that they see attractive people wearing, that tells us that they have trouble distinguishing the quality of the clothing for themselves.

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