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All women aged 16-50 are arranged on a spectrum of those who wear no makeup to those who wear the most makeup. You must eliminate either the bottom (no makeup) 25%, or the top (most makeup) 25%. Your friends and family are safe regardless. Which do you eliminate?

Bottom 25%
14.8%
Top 25%
85.2%

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The poorest women will be in the bottom 25% so I chose the top 25%

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maybe not; good skincare and aesthetic procedures for good skin and plastic surgery are very very expensive and also reduce the need for makeup. Cheap makeup is often used by poorer people who don't have the ability to care for their appearance otherwise.

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That's a very small niche compared to the millions of women in the third world who make less than $1 per day.

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@HD_Banyan

That's true, and I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't wear any makeup. But also poor women have been wearing makeup throughout history, made out of stuff like ash and bugs, so it wouldn't surprise me if they *did* use makeup.

5:43 AM · Jul 7, 2020

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they will still be overwhelmingly in the bottom 75% The top 25% will be made up of people who, one reason or another, have the time + resources to own and apply lots of makeup. That rules out most of the global poor.