The Only Way to Move Ahead in Life Today? Agree or Disagree?
Summary
A straphanger lays out a blunt theory about social mobility in the modern age: if you're hot, you can leapfrog from dirt poor to the upper classes through platforms like OnlyFans and Instagram. No need to go to LA and show your tits in Playboy anymore. Just grab an iPhone. Kareem presses on the obvious follow-up: what about ugly people? The answer comes without hesitation. Lie, cheat and steal. It's a cynical take on beauty privilege that cuts through the usual meritocracy myths, delivered with the kind of casual nihilism that only a random subway conversation can produce.
Full Transcript
It's easier than ever before to show whole you used have to go to La. Hope you were going to show your tits and Playboy, and now it's like, "Hey, do you have an iPhone?" It's crazy. Any of us could go on OnlyFans and we'd make tons of—well, you guys are hot. Me and him, we're not doing it. If you're attractive, you can move through society in a way that uggos can like. If you're an influencer, if you're a hot guy, a hot girl, you can be born dirt poor and then you can move classes and be accepted into for society better than ugly people. So how do you suggest that ugly people work the way up? Lie, cheat and steal.
So what's your take?