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Why do beautiful people want to keep their good fortune to themselves? | Torsten Bell
The more attractive you are, the richer you are and the more likely that you’ll oppose handouts for others
Redistribution is back in fashion. The chancellor is handing out support for energy bills to everyone, while increasing taxes, largely on richer households, will deliver an average gain of £1,195 for the poorest quarter of households and an average loss of £456 for the richest quarter. I think this is good, some disgruntled Tory backbenchers see it as bad and now an Italian wonk has proved that it is in fact ugly.
Our views on redistribution normally fit traditional left/right approaches, but you know what also matters? How beautiful you are. Researchers have long known that attractive people are happier, get better jobs and find it easier to make friends. Now a new study shows that beauty affects our political preferences too: beautiful people are less keen on redistribution than the, ummm, “less attractive” rest of us. This holds for men and women.
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