Serious Lookist labour economics / lookist financial indicators: the hot waitress economic index

[AnonAutist]

In modern Western service economies ugly people suffer more economic hardship regardless of the business cycle. In our economies, the service, retail and broader sales 'industries' have become large sectors employing more people than ever before. These also happen to be lookist hierarchies, where attractive people occupy the higher rungs in hierarchy of jobs. Depending on the business cycle either Chads and Stacies get the high prestige, well compensated, low effort jobs that accompany a boom cycle or in times of bust Chad and Stacey workers will be displacing and pushing uglier co-workers into unemployment so Chad and Stacey can stay employed.

This displacement effect is already well known and widely observed in terms of education, where in times of economic hardship the higher educated start pushing the lower educated people out of the workforce as the job market tightens. In the same vein we need to make lookist labour economics a thing.

From the original article by Hugo Lindgren in New York Magazine from 2009:

In New York, we have our own economic indicators, often based on the degree to which people are being thwarted by the lack of opportunity. An old standby is the Overeducated Cabbie Index. The Squeegee Man Apparition Index is another good one. There’s also the Speed at Which Contractors Return Calls Index: within 24 hours, you’re in a recession; if they call you without prompting, that’s a depression.

The indicator I prefer is the Hot Waitress Index: The hotter the waitresses, the weaker the economy. In flush times, there is a robust market for hotness. Selling everything from condos to premium vodka is enhanced by proximity to pretty young people (of both sexes) who get paid for providing this service. That leaves more-punishing work, like waiting tables, to those with less striking genetic gifts. But not anymore.

A waitress at one Lower East Side club described to me what happened there: “They slowly let the boys go, then the less attractive girls, and then these hot girls appeared out of nowhere. All in the hope of bringing in more business. The managers even admitted it. These hot girls that once thrived on the generosity of their friends in the scene for hookups—hosting events, marketing brands, modeling—are now hunting for work.” A Soho restaurateur I know recently received applications from “a couple of classic Eastern European fembots. Once upon a time, these ladies must’ve made $1,500 a night lap dancing. At my place, they’re not going to make that in a week.”

He didn’t hire them, though. Not every restaurant craves stripper-level pulchritude in their serving ranks. Many prefer competence. Rare indeed is the waitress who is so smoking that customers don’t mind when she drops a glass of Cabernet into their laps. But obviously hotness can provide an edge. Being cheerfully attended to by people who might otherwise look right through you is part of the dining experience.

To be actually useful, of course, the Hot Waitress Index must be a leading indicator, and there is good reason to believe that it is. Employment is generally thought to lag behind economic recovery, which is to say that jobless rates remain elevated, and even climb, after a recession has technically ended. But hotness occupies a privileged place in the employment picture. As a commodity that’s fairly cheap, historically effective as a marketing tool, and available on a freelance basis, hotness will likely be back in demand long before your average Michigan autoworker is. Or the rest of us, for that matter.

Did you catch the “a couple of classic Eastern European fembots" by the restaurant guy? Is this an invocation of 'femoid' avant la lettre?

What the Hotness of Your Waitress Says About the Economy -- New York Magazine - Nymag

As if it wasn’t unpleasant enough, this recession comes with an info glut, all this economic data purporting to answer a simple question: Are things getting better? The answer is rarely straightforward. The numbers aren’t just confusing. They s [...]

nymag.com

 

[Deleted member 26032]

the chads and stacies become waiter/waitress and the truecels get fired and starve/become homeless.

 

[Gymcelled]

The endless thirst of the human male will destroy our civilization

 

[AnonAutist]

the chads and stacies become waiter/waitress and the truecels get fired and starve/become homeless.

Exactly, and when the economy is good, Chad and Stacey become real estate brokers/sales people and truecels will offered jobs again in the backroom or the warehouse. Economics of displacement.

Restaurant jobs in good economy: -- Restaurant jobs in bad economy:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chad/Stacy: host/hostess -------------- Chad/Stacy: host/hostess / server
Becky: server ------------------------------------Becky: server/kitchen
Normie: server/kitchen ------------------- Normie: kitchen hand
Incel: kitchen hand -------------------------- Incel: dishwasher/cleaner
Truecel: dishwasher/cleaner-------------Truecel: unemployed

 

[cowboy-emoji]

Life on tutorial mode with cheat codes enabled

 

[I want to believe]

The world has gone crazy.

 

[RollD20]

Truecel: dishwasher/cleaner-------------Truecel: unemployed

Faurk i’ve been both and none of the others

 

[Deleted member 26032]

Exactly, and when the economy is good, Chad and Stacey become real estate brokers/sales people and truecels will offered jobs again in the backroom or the warehouse. Economics of displacement.

Restaurant jobs in good economy: -- Restaurant jobs in bad economy:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chad/Stacy: host/hostess -------------- Chad/Stacy: host/hostess / server
Becky: server ------------------------------------Becky: server/kitchen
Normie: server/kitchen ------------------- Normie: kitchen hand
Incel: kitchen hand -------------------------- Incel: dishwasher/cleaner
Truecel: dishwasher/cleaner-------------Truecel: unemployed

high iq. exactly.
Then trucels either need to crimemaxx or become slaves to not lose whatever workhorse job chads/staceys can't perform.

 

[Simulacrasimulation]

In modern Western service economies ugly people suffer more economic hardship regardless of the business cycle. In our economies, the service, retail and broader sales 'industries' have become large sectors employing more people than ever before. These also happen to be lookist hierarchies, where attractive people occupy the higher rungs in hierarchy of jobs. Depending on the business cycle either Chads and Stacies get the high prestige, well compensated, low effort jobs that accompany a boom cycle or in times of bust Chad and Stacey workers will be displacing and pushing uglier co-workers into unemployment so Chad and Stacey can stay employed.

This displacement effect is already well known and widely observed in terms of education, where in times of economic hardship the higher educated start pushing the lower educated people out of the workforce as the job market tightens. In the same vein we need to make lookist labour economics a thing.

From the original article by Hugo Lindgren in New York Magazine from 2009:



Did you catch the “a couple of classic Eastern European fembots" by the restaurant guy? Is this an invocation of 'femoid' avant la lettre?

What the Hotness of Your Waitress Says About the Economy -- New York Magazine - Nymag

As if it wasn’t unpleasant enough, this recession comes with an info glut, all this economic data purporting to answer a simple question: Are things getting better? The answer is rarely straightforward. The numbers aren’t just confusing. They s [...]

nymag.com

The indicator I prefer is the Hot Waitress Index: The hotter the waitresses, the weaker the economy
plato iq activated

 

[AnonAutist]

high iq. exactly.
Then trucels either need to crimemaxx or become slaves to not lose whatever workhorse job chads/staceys can't perform.

The same works in other industries, you'll find incel and truecel types always relegated to the most invisible, dirtiest, back breaking type labour positions... incels/truecels work in the warehouse/stockroom or on the factory floor of an awful production facility. If they have technical skills of some type they work as workhorses in the administration, engineering, maintenance or IT departments where their expertise is the only reason they are not in the trenches. As soon as their technical expertise runs out they get canned - because they have no meaningful relations or power network within the work place politics.

If you are ugly and/or non-NT the world gets painfully meritocratic. The last place where uggo non-NT truecels could excel in this world was Silicon Valley - provided they had tech skills and were high IQ, but as these places got corporatised and (over)socialised in the 2010s that route is now also closed.

It's bleak out there. Inceldom is more of a symptom of a wider set of problems that plague a certain caste people trapped in a (post)modern, urbanised, completely oversocialised society.

 

[Deleted member 26032]

The same works in other industries, you'll find incel and truecel types always relegated to the most invisible, dirtiest, back breaking type labour positions... incels/truecels work in the warehouse/stockroom or on the factory floor of an awful production facility. If they have technical skills of some type they work as workhorses in the administration, engineering, maintenance or IT departments where their expertise is the only reason they are not in the trenches. As soon as their technical expertise runs out they get canned - because they have no meaningful relations or power network within the work place politics.

If you are ugly and/or non-NT the world gets painfully meritocratic. The last place where uggo non-NT truecels could excel in this world was Silicon Valley - provided they had tech skills and were high IQ, but as these places got corporatised and (over)socialised in the 2010s that route is now also closed.

It's bleak out there. Inceldom is more of a symptom of a wider set of problems that plague a certain caste people trapped in a (post)modern, urbanised, completely oversocialised society.

Indeed. Brutal af.