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Ben Mercer's avatar

I am the fabled 5'11 and have almost 3000 substack subscribers. Unless you own land, I will now await delivery of your wife.

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Ben Saltiel's avatar

In a surprise twist she did leave me after I published this article.

Only 10,000 subs and up does it for her.

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Ben Mercer's avatar

mine left me after I failed to grow my Instagram following. maybe we should link and build our accounts together to avoid further marital humiliation

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Ben Saltiel's avatar

We hired Goldman Sachs to advise us on strategic options

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Torsten Walbaum's avatar

Can attest to this. Being tall has always helped me compensate for my extremely weird personality. Nobody pays attention to the insane sh*t you’re saying when you’re towering over them like a handsome marble statue

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Ben Saltiel's avatar

It must be difficult for you to only get the praise for your looks and not all the very intelligent stuff you say.

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Jared Brown's avatar

The dating scene has followed the same trend as the economy - the top players have never been better off, while the average person might be headed in the direction of being worse off.

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Ben Saltiel's avatar

The Power Law has moved beyond Venture Capital and Publishing and now the rich (handsome) have too much to eat while everyone else is starving.

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Jared Brown's avatar

“I generally try to avoid this but I’m already married and would my wife really consider leaving somebody with nearly 1,000 Substack subscribers? Does she think we grow on trees?” Was also hilarious 😂

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Ben Saltiel's avatar

As you can imagine, she was thrilled by that line.

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Maudite femmelette's avatar

I thinks there’s more pp for men then there is for women, first because for them, there isn’t much concomitant hatred/jealousy or negative associations , and 2, I think women don’t compartmentalise men’s physical attractiveness like men do for women, in other words an attractive man won’t be objectified as much as an attractive woman, there’s more halo effect for men. 3 there’s more pp for them also in terms of how long it lasts in their lives. So in terms of quality of life overall, if I had to choose between being an extremely beautiful woman and just a fairly handsome man ? Number 2 by far !

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Ben Saltiel's avatar

You raise good points @Maudite femmelette .

Although I think in both cases, it depends how attractive you are. It’s probably best to be sneaky hot, not enough to be disliked but enough to still get by.

Kind of like a Zoe Deschanel / Joseph Gordon-Levitt type

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Maudite femmelette's avatar

Yea, tbh i think the way we look at attractiveness in general is rationalised in distorted ways, not even in the sense of « everybody’s beautiful », no even in the « 1-10 scale » it doesn’t work. Even « average » doesn’t work. Imo, there’s another model or framework underlying how people perceive physical beauty, one that’s probably not linear like 10,9,8 etc.

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Ben Saltiel's avatar

I tried to design a system to decipher this using the most advanced algorithms.

I put body cams and heart rate monitors on men and women of all ages and have a life feed of their biometric signals.

With this I built a predictive engine.

However, unfortunately once people started asking questions it turns out this violates several privacy laws, mostly related to data compliance so I am now in GDPR jail cell.

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Maudite femmelette's avatar

we forget how repressive something like an ethics department is to the average male nerd 😔 free my man Ben saltiel

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Samantha Shelley's avatar

I was just talking to a friend about a male influencer who says the most heinous stuff but is extremely handsome, and how I can’t help but find him endearing and lovable in a way I never normally would! And you’re right, no sane woman would leave a man with a 4-digit Substack following.

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Ben Saltiel's avatar

We appreciate your honesty.

4 digit Substack followings is the new doll face

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Natalia Cote-Munoz's avatar

Pretty male privilege is absolutely real.

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Ben Saltiel's avatar

CNN is on 24 hours a day and not once do they bring this up!

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Eohn's avatar

I copied this article into trad AI and it said that any consciousness of visible appearance in a man is gay. Now what do we do?

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Ben Saltiel's avatar

Meet up later?

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

You are crazy Ben, and we like it.

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Ben Saltiel's avatar

I’m trying to reach eccentric.

Regular Substackers are crazy, rip accounts like yourself are eccentric.

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