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It's not about marrying more attractive spouses for breeding better looking offspring, but what a lot of these studies miss is that wealthy people who are genetically disadvantaged have the funds the invest in their appearance to become better looking: best timely medical care, fixing teeth, becoming taller, correcting posture, hair implants, plastic surgery and skin care, hiring professional trainers and nutritionists, living in nice, quiet, green areas to reduce stress and sleep better, and other potential quackery rich people have access too like blood transfusions.

Just look at Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk before and after they became wealthy, they're better looking despite being 10-20 years older.

Basically, higher IQ can help you build wealth, and higher wealth can help you become better looking, but high IQ is not directly responsible for better looks.


I think another aspect is that many things that are within someone's control that positively affect attractiveness require patience and long-term thinking. Working out, brushing teeth regularly, eating healthy, etc, are not enjoyable in the short-term, and people with higher IQ / more successful tend to be able to better control their impulses and have longer-term vision.
>. Working out, brushing teeth regularly, eating healthy, etc, are not enjoyable in the short-term, and people with higher IQ / more successful tend to be able to better control their impulses and have longer-term vision.

That's not as easy as that.

Having dealt in your formative childhood years with poor health due to poor medical care where doctors just pump you with antibiotics and fuck you up, poor dentists and orthodontists who make your conditions worse, living in loud polluted neighborhoods where you're not getting quality air and sleep, not getting proper nutrition as a kid due to poverty, getting bullied and harassed every day leading to constant stress and anxiety, etc, all these impact your looks from your early life and are not in your direct control as you make it be, and won't easily get remedied no matter how much you brush your teeth, eat well and work out in adulthood.

> people with higher IQ (...) tend to be able to better control their impulses

Is that true? Are there studies showing that?

? It's a truism. They have a direct relationship. There may be literally thousands of studies showing it.
That’s just anabolic steroids (plus drugs to keep their testes), six hours a week at the gym, and about 1000 grams of dietary protein a week. None of that requires being a billionaire or even close.
Steroids won't fix your acne, posture, teeth, wrinkles, saggy skin, asymmetric face, short height, baldness, etc.

Steroids help you quickly and easily become muscular, you'll still be ugly, but jacked.

Proper resistance exercise will fix your posture.

As for the rest, did Mr. Bezos get a foot taller and a full head of hair when I wasn’t paying attention?

He does look healthier and happier than he did in the past though, so good for him.

>Proper resistance exercise will fix your posture.

Not always Mr. Swollen.

Just going to the gym and doing random exercises might sometimes make your posture and pain worse.

That's where profesional medical help comes in, as in x-rays, doctors, physiotherapists and massage, correction surgery and implants, etc.

Uruk-hai-maxxing.
I see little reason to think Bezos is on any sort of enhancement. He previously looked like he'd literally never worked out in his life, and probably also had a horrible diet. Put somebody like that in the gym with a proper diet and routine, and they're just going to blow up fast, even when starting late. Most people can't do it for lack of self discipline, but that's one thing he seems to have no lack of. And no idea what people are saying about Musk. He just seems like a typical yo-yo dieter with a hair transplant.

Also, it's relevant that Bezos is one of the guys blowing money on life extension tech. So I think there's 0 chance he sees anabolics (or other enhancements) as a good risk:reward when he certainly fantasizes about there being a possibility of life extension happening within his lifetime.

> Just look at Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk before and after they became wealthy, they're better looking despite being 10-20 years older.

I doubt this is really true, you're just seeing the results of frequently getting photographed/recorded in staged managed situations by professional photographers, probably with makeup. That's also something that happens more often when you're wealthy.

Didn't Musk undergo a massive amount of plastic surgery and had other stuff like hair transplants (and presumably a lot of steroids)?
I believe Musk was wealthy basically from birth…
> Elon Musk before and after they became wealthy, they're better looking despite being 10-20 years older.

IMHO sort of but when you massively overdo it like some you start looking pretty freakish. Also I don't think there is any evidence Bezos had any plastic surgery done? He probably just got a better stylist. Must OTH.. well...

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