Serious Taxation of height and beauty: two examples of utilitarian income distrubtion

[AnonAutist]

Famous Harvard macroeconomist Greg Mankiw proposed a utilitarian argument for the taxation of height in the late 2000s and an estimation of what an appropriate tax level would be.

Greg Mankiw's Blog: The Optimal Taxation of Height

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Link to download of paper (warning very technical)

Around the same time an Argentine publicist and activist, Gonzalo Otalóra, published a Spanish language book ¡Feo! (Ugly!) in which he advocated for higher taxes on beautiful people who reap unearned benefits from their looks levels. He used similar argumentation to Mankiw and got some press for his uggo-manifesto in the Anglo media but his book was never translated I believe.

Gonzalo Otalora has written a book entitled ¡Feo! (Ugly!), which calls for the taxation of good-looking people to counteract the natural advantages they have over munters. "Countless studies show that ... it's easier for them to find jobs; they're paid more and find partners more easily," he says. The "manifiesto del feosexual" also calls for the levy to be donated to the ugly, and for photo requirements on job applications and airbrushing in magazines to be outlawed.

Tax the beautiful

Ugly people should be compensated for their obvious disadvantage in society, argues Gonzalo Otalóra. Marco Visscher | April 2008 issue Gonzalo Otólora, once a pimply teenager, has written Feosexual, an ironic book about his decision to ignore people's opinions about his looks. In his native...

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Lucy Mangan on the author who calls for the taxation of good-looking people

Lucy Mangan: Gonzalo Otalora has written a book entitled ¡Feo! (Ugly!), which calls for the taxation of good-looking people to counteract the natural advantages they have over munters

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The recent BLM riots and protests have reinvigorated the debate on redistributive (social) justice via taxation or (lump sum) benefits. How do we insert the ideas of re-distributive justice to counteract the adverse life effects of of heightism and lookism? Maybe even address the introvert-disadvantage. Surely we could get low-tier normies and some mid-tier normies interested in these ideas no?