So how come I’m not independently wealthy yet?

Shouldn’t I already have floated away on a golden parachute?

Being good-looking can be as useful as a university degree when it comes to wages and promotions, with a person’s attractiveness directly affecting pay-packets and careers, according to a new study.

A team at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg in northern Germany questioned more than 3,000 people about their career, and compared this with rankings of how attractive they were.

The results suggest that being one point more attractive was worth a three percent wage hike, while being five points more attractive boosted a career by the same amount as having a university degree.

But it doesn’t just help you get a job:

Once in a job, a person’s attractiveness could even affect how effective they work he suggested.

“We know, for example, that good looking people are often more self assured, which could help in boosting their productivity.”

Could it be that, all this time, we’ve misunderstood the #Occupy movement? Could it be that they weren’t protesting economic inequality? Could they, in fact, have been protesting attractiveness inequality?

Lord knows they were ugly enough.

Hat tip PJ Tatler.