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Comment by Dr_tldr | Hacker News Reader

He works for a company called Astral Health, of course he's serious.

Personal attacks, which this crosses into, are not allowed on Hacker News. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it.

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Should probably update my profile. I'm now working on an app for CNN. Great Big Story.

http://www.greatbigstory.com

Astral Health and Beauty is a $40MM / year cosmetics and skincare company that I am proud to have been a part of. The beauty business gets shit on quite a bit, but it offers something priceless to the disadvantaged that is in short supply; the ability to feel good about oneself.

Realism helps most people feel better about themselves, advertising and mass media is causing the problem in the first place. The skincare and cosmetics industry is a large part of the problem in the first place.

Icelandic public baths for example show young people that most humans are just not that attractive and it's ok. Consider TV uses highly attractive people to pretend to be less than attractive which is horribly damaging.

Cosmetics much older than advertising.

Advertising is thousands of years old, so it's hard to say. My point is the industry has become toxic over time.

So you're saying "it was already broken when I got here, who cares if I make it worse"? Sounds like a really selfish and unenlightened attitude.

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