In Argentina, campaigner Gonzalo Otalora is lobbying for the kind of luck egalitarianism that Elizabeth Anderson condemns: "It's not fair, he said. The beautiful people get all the breaks. Beauty is a natural advantage and he wants the good-lookers to be taxed to finance compensation for the ugly people."
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posted by Ben @ 6:01 pm
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This seems to be an issue in Latin America, Ugly Betty was originally a Colombian TV Show.
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