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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 sex, to our general experience of the world. Beauty and wealth have all the time been bedfellows. Throughout history, the wonder standard of any given period has served the ideological interests of the ruling class. In the course of 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...