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Tall People Earn More

Posted by michael on from the wait-till-we-can-gengineer-tallness dept.

ayahner writes "Tall people earn considerably more money throughout their lives than their shorter co-workers, with each inch adding about $789 a year in pay, according to a new study. If this is true, I should make a killing! At 6'7" I tower over other developers. It's mostly a distraction, as I can see over even the highest cubes and if I stand just in the right spot, I can receive satellite transmissions. Saves on the cell phone bill. I'm going to go ask for a raise right now, if I can figure out how to work the printer..."

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  1. obvious by kurosawdust · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well of course we get more money! We don't have huge pots of gold to fall back on like short people do! Quit whinin'!

  2. I think you left out the most important conclusion by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's because tall people are better.

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  3. I wish by latez · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller, I wish i had a girl with a phone I would call her!

  4. Obligitory by Jacer · · Score: 3, Funny

    if I can figure out how to work the printer..." PC load letter, what the FUCK does that mean?!

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  5. Re:So Why Won't Doctor's Help Short People Grow? by brakk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because short people couldn't afford it.

  6. Re:gee, you don't say by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 4, Funny

    This of course comes as a surprise to noone under the 5'5" mark.

    What's funny, or perhaps expected, is that tall people are, as a rule, blissfully unaware of the advantages their height affords them. They bitch about trivialities like fitting into movie seats while attractice girls fling themselves at them and they command undue attention in a conference room.

    And if one of us shortish people brings it up, we're told we have a "Napolean complex", as if they even know what that means apart from that Napolean was also kind of short.

    Easy there little fella. Why don't you cool down, maybe take a walk.

    Could ya fetch some coffee while you're up? Us grown-ups have some serious work to do here.

    So long, Karma. It's been fun
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  7. Re:Dubious Study by Blkdeath · · Score: 3, Funny
    How does gibberish like this get modded up as insightful? The poster has no idea what the word statistics even means.

    In the general sense it means "Bending numbers to fit your conclusions."

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  8. New SPAM opportunity -- add inches by ReelOddeeo · · Score: 4, Funny

    How would you like to be six inches taller and earn hundreds of thousands more dollars?

    You should try our new all-natural herbal enlargement pills!

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