Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2020/04/16/your-height-has-a-big-impact-on-your-salary-new-research-seeks-to-understand-why/
Archived Source: http://archive.today/bJNom
rich people eat better during development
we gotta nail some titanium spikes into spines to get richer people
Manlets... rise up.
Lenin was 5'5".
Stalin? 5'3"-5'6".
Robespierre? 5'3".
Toussaint Louverture? 5'4"!
Revolution runs in our tiny little veins, comrades. Our strides may be small, but our hearts and minds are enormous. 🫡
Castro was 6’ 3,
Mandela was 6’ 1
Fred Hampton was 5’ 10
Rokossovsky was 6’ 6
The Revolution comes in all shapes and sizes comrades. Size matters not. We will march together!
I'm about to get some Doc Martens again, I think. Not for the height boost, just cuz they're punk as hell 😎
oh and my current shoes are full of holes lol
Nelson Mandela was not 6'4, at least not when he was older. Maybe when he was younger he was that tall. If I had to guess, I'd say around 185cm/ 6'1.
Source: stood next to a "life size" Nelson Mandela statue. I was the same height
Edit: Okay I decided to google it, and according to the Nelson Mandela Foundation's website, he was 184cm tall. Close enough guess from me, turns out the statue really was life size.
My mistake, he was listed at 6 foot 1/4 inch, and I accidentally misconstrued that as 6 foot 4.
Damn, no wonder I'm so short. I'm poor as fuck. Going to need to get some cash so I can reach stuff on the top shelf.
the capitalists don't want you to know this, but using a ladder is more stable than standing on a pile of money (!!)
Don't listen to this, it's just communist propaganda!
Get some poors to tape the money together and attach them to the bottom of your boots. True capitalists wear money stilts and they are taller than commie ladders!
Are you telling me the grad is not adding the 1.3% for height?
It can be influenced both by the fact that tall people tend to be promoted more and by the fact that kids of richer people eat better and grow taller as a result and that they partially inherit their parents' socioeconomic status.
Note that this is about the association between height and income. It is possible that a confuser variable or set of variables is/are influencing both income and height, thus producing the observed correlation between income and height. In this case, the association would not imply causation. But even if this is just association and not causation, its a significant fact, because then there is some unkown set of factors making taller individuals having higher probabilities of earn more.
Eating better food, breathing less pollutants, and experiencing less stress make you taller
From what I understand a lot of it is actually epigenetics and has to do with your parents or grandparents experiencing food scarcity in their lives, which may also explain the wealth disparity stat considering generational wealth being passed on and whatnot
yeah, epigenetics too. Basically the stuff I said but for your parents/grandparents as well
It does explain why countries experiencing more malnutrition tend to be poorer and shorter. Guatemalans are a good example of this. Our height demographics are skewed by the rural poor who are famously around 5 feet at the maximum height. People in the cities tend to be closer to five foot nine.
Shorter people tend to live longer though and have fewer cardiovascular disease risks as well as cancer.
It's primarily because they have lower blood pressure in general which leads to less risk to cardiovascular disease. Shorter body takes less pressure to pump blood to the head. The cancer thing is because smaller bodies have fewer cells. Fewer cells, less of a chance one of them malfunctions and turns into cancer.
Damn, that is cold hearted coming from the goddess of virginity, hearth, family and home. That comment didn’t feel homely at all Hestia!
