[heurisko]

> tall white guys have way less edge over Zoom.

Why do you leave out class analysis? This has far more relevance than arguably either height or race.

White working class boys, at least in the UK, are the demographic least likely to go to university.

The story is likely to be the same in other countries. If you're working class, you're not going to be the intake for an MBA.

[benreesman]

I agree, I was using talk white guy as a shorthand for rich kid with several other attributes.

Being a tall white guy myself I thought it would get me less crucified.

[sockpuppet69]

That’s incredibly racist.

[benreesman]

Me acknowledging that I’m squarely in the demographic that needs to be very aware of how easy it is to attribute success to hard work rather than privilege makes me any kind of prejudiced?

I’ve got the same tribalism firmware as any other homo sapien, and I’ve probably said some xenophobic shit in my life without even realizing it.

But I try hard to make my way on my code rather than being 6’4”, a lean 230 and conventionally handsome, I think that’s a lame way to make a living no matter what it pays, unless one is a professional athlete or a model or something. I’d probably need to tweak my body fat percentage by as much as 10% to have the same superficial stats as an NFL half back, but I’d rather embrace my inner nerd, which feels more natural.

If you want to read about it, we’ll I post under my real name and Chaos Monkeys won a bunch of awards a few years ago.

[usaar333]

Class analysis isn't that relevant in the workspace. At least in the US, your perceived class changes with economics, so there's not much class differential in meetings.

All said, I don't intuitively buy the idea of Zoom radically changing opportunities. At least as a short engineer, I've sensed zero difference, but then again, I never thought of my height as an actual handicap with regard to my job (studies on initial impressions be damned as the initial impression isn't that relevant once you've built up reputation).