Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Survival of the prettiest II

Last week, my auntie just gave me a great advice – Two workers. One is very smart and productive but ugly. Another one is beautiful but not very smart and not productive. Boss will choose the beautiful one. First impression is the king of all selection.

Extraordinary but I’m not surprise with that. Yeah, you can just compare these two candidates. If you are an owner of an organization, which one would you prefer? Regardless of age and EPF, I confirm you will choose the first one.


Angelabay. She is beautiful, tall and has an alluring body. Those with straight dick will die to have just a conversation with her.

She is ugly and seems like a nerdy workaholic.

You know what. Fxxk those people that judge others by their appearance. As an economics student, I think that four-letter word is good since it can indicate my passion and aggressiveness in stressing my point. It is effective.

Well, actually the second picture is one of the 2009 Nobel Laureates in economics science. Her name is Elinor Ostrom She has challenged the conventional wisdom that common property is poorly managed and should be either regulated by central authorities or privatized. Based on numerous studies of user-managed fish stocks, pastures, woods, lakes, and groundwater basins, Ostrom concludes that the outcomes are, more often than not, better than predicted by standard theories. She observes that resource users frequently develop sophisticated mechanisms for decision-making and rule enforcement to handle conflicts of interest, and she characterizes the rules that promote successful outcomes.

Sorry but I’m still holding to my old wisdom – don’t judge a book by its cover. My credit will be given to those “ugly” people who contributed so much in knowledge development.

2 comments:

  1. Don't lemme see u choosing a pretty bimbo next time as ur employee/subordinate! XD

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  2. Yoo!!
    For me this is not related to the economics but the mathematic statistic and also psychology/social studies. Do you know that in Korean, almost all the lady has done their plastic surgery and they even have a law that the daughters can sue the parents if the parents not giving them financially support in doing the plastic surgery. We can't put the blame on them as the employers are really judge by the appearance first. This has become a social issue in the workplace, even if there is a law to confront this, the first appearance still matter. Religion view, I strongly confront it. Mathetically, I would see the correlationship between the advance of the country/world vs the frequency of surgery operated. Economically, I would see this a an innovation to the new trend of world that could transform the world and keeping the GDP high, creating more working opportunity. when innovation is higher, the varities for human are more and it would lead to.... (you are an economist)

    Btw, In china, there are height surgery that would make those shorty (like me :() to become taller cuz the pride of those Chinaman is from the height. And the chances of getting jobs for taller ppl are higher, this is a social problem, this could be an economic prob depends on the way u see it :)

    Just my view point anyway :D

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