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Five Unfair Life Advantages People Take For Granted
These advantages often decide between success and failure or comfort and misery.
Life hands us all unfair advantages in one way or another.
These are often natural and sometimes man-made conditions that confer some privileges on some people that others don’t have.
The effects of these privileges can alter the course of a person’s life in a way that leads to what sociologist Sara McLanahan called “diverging destinies.”
People take these advantages for granted and often don’t talk about them that much. Yet, in very subtle ways.
Here are four unfair advantages that are so evident but are mostly taken for granted.
#1. Physical Attractiveness
Winning the attractiveness genetic lottery is an unfair life advantage.
Physical attractiveness is an asset with high social and professional returns.
People who are head-turners enjoy privileges that their less attractive counterparts don’t.
In everyday interactions, people swoon over those who are more attractive and even overlook their mistakes with a smile.
