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sweetness industry sweetness industry Botox, fillers and cosmetic surgery have gotten increasingly mandatory to live as much as contemporary beauty standards, making a beauty tax that's pricing many people out In our latest Class Ceiling series, we unpack how class actually affects young people today – from our jobs, to the best way we've got sex, to our general experience of the world. Beauty and wealth have at all times been bedfellows. Throughout history, the sweetness standard of any given period has served the ideological interests of the ruling class. Throughout the Renaissance, plump, pale skin was a prized signifier of high social status, while sun-darkened skin became synonymous with lower classes labouring outside. Today, nevertheless, that very same tanned complexion is desirable, coming,...