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A recent report from Dove has quantified beauty ideals’ weight on the economy, to the tune of $806 billion. In line with the report, released Tuesday, appearance-based discrimination (an umbrella term for skin shade and body size) cost the U.S. $501 billion in 2019, and body dissatisfaction set the economy back $305 billion in the course of the same time period. They each affect a respective 66 million and 45 million individuals. Dove relied on S. Bryn Austin, a researcher on the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Boston Children’s Hospital, in addition to a team of economists from Deloitte Access Economics. The report detailed a $501 billion cost to the economy as a direct results of appearance-based discrimination, $269 billion of...