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Tall People Earn More
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..."
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'!
Because short people couldn't afford it.
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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The median height for American white males is 69"(5'9") while 72"(6'0") is the 75th percentile. (NHANES III 1988-94)
Recent Presidents' heights:
G.W.Bush: 6' 0"
Clinton: 6' 2-1/2"
G.H.Bush: 6' 2"
Reagan : 6' 1"
Carter: 5' 9-1/2"
Ford: 6' 0"
Nixon: 6' 0"
Johnson: 6' 3"
Kennedy: 6' 0"
8 of the last 9 above the 75th percentile not even accounting for lower heights in the past.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
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