Researchers found a strong link between wages and height, particularly for men, with each additional 10 centimetres of height adding three per cent to hourly wages.
The "height premium" was two per cent per 10 centimetres for women, researchers from the University of Sydney and Canberra's Australian National University (ANU) found.
What? nooooo...damn it I knew I should have eaten those long beans!
Too bad the article didn't mention why it is that taller people do better than well...their "vertically-challenged" counterparts (jeez as if vertically-challenged sounds a whole lot better). I think it's because us shorties are intimidated by taller people. Maybe short people look down on themselves and have less self confidence. It's a feeling of not belonging, it's as if you don't ever fit into a group because you're short and everyone is...tall or...of average height. Society is LITERALLY looking down on us! I suppose many of us shorties feel like outcasts and maybe that's why we don't make ourselves heard! I think that many tall people feel that short people can't do what they do! (Hey the only thing we can't do is play basketball ok?)
It's discrimination! Heck I can do whatever you can do, sure I might not be tall enough to reach the top of that shelf or that file cabinet or whatever but give me a ladder and I'll reach it for goodness sake! no big deal....no reason to self-loathe and be ashamed!
You know what? I think that's it! The reason why I'm called a chilli-padi. Why some of us are fierce. It's because we want to prove to ourselves and the rest of the world we can do whatever you can do despite being "petite".
It's not easy being short, I'll tell you that.
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Aww babe..*Big bear hug* with a pat on the back
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