Are beautiful women still a scarce resource in China?

A few days ago, a crypto industry veteran with a net worth of A9 took me to a top-tier business KTV in Shanghai.
Honestly, if I didn't say it was a place for entertainment and romance,
you might think you'd accidentally wandered into a Miss World audition.
Rows of women in their early twenties,
all with fair skin, beautiful looks, and long legs.
Each one, in an ordinary person's social circle,
would be a goddess surrounded by admirers.
But in that smoky private room,
they were simply openly priced,
viewed like livestock,
under the gaze of the scene-setting crew.
This scene gave me a deeply absurd illusion.
The news constantly creates anxiety about appearance,
saying that beauty is a scarce resource.
But in these habitats of wealth,
beautiful women are as plentiful as dog tail grass after summer rain,
completely worthless. After returning, I realized:
it's not that there are more beautiful women,
it's that beauty has been industrialized and harvested.
This is aesthetic inflation, and even more so, a clearance of dividends!
01. Falsehood
Now, let's tear open the most painful truth:
Many people think beauty is scarce
because what you encounter every day
is that barren, withered, ordinary social circle.
You can find a few pretty girls in any county middle school,
but search the entire county,
and you might not find a single
wealthy young man with assets over ten million.
This is the truth:
Beauty is a seed randomly sown by God,
with a certain degree of fairness;
while wealth is a monopoly built on class, genetics,
and generations of blood, sweat, and tears.
In the logic of capital,
anything that can be obtained through probability
is not called scarcity; only those
that require means and intergenerational accumulation
are called power.
You think you hold a trump card,
but in the eyes of true capital strategists,
your face is just a ticket,
that can be replaced at any time.
02. Transformation Now
Let's look at the manufacturing process of this era.
Today’s aesthetic medicine market is essentially
a crazy house renovation project.
As long as you're willing to spend twenty thousand,
and understand some beauty commercial planning,
a modest 5-point beauty
can be precisely transformed into a 7 or even 8-point top beauty.
This is terrifying.
When beauty becomes a manufactured industrial product,
its marginal cost is decreasing.
And more tragically, this generation of post-00 girls
have a brutally realistic understanding of depreciation.
They will, like trading paper gold,
continue to invest the money they earn into that face,
trying to fight against the harvest of time,
but they forget a core deadlock:
supply is exploding,
but buyers are plummeting.
Ten years ago, real estate and the internet mass-produced countless wealthy big brothers.
They had low thresholds, spent freely,
willing to pay a premium for a little more looks.
Now, new money is as clear-headed as AI.
They only pay for value,
and no longer take on debt for accessories.
03. Dimensionality Reduction Attack
Finally, let's look at the most despairing ending.
Many so-called goddesses
still cling to the illusion that they are worth the best middle-class life.
They disdain the stability of ordinary people,
but can't reach the thresholds of the top circles.
They watch their youth slowly shrink,
waiting for their looks to sell.
This beauty glut
is actually a sign of the era’s arrogance.
They think that just upgrading their hardware
will secure a long-term livelihood,
but they don't realize
that in this era where even financial costs are outrageously high,
the essence of marriage is shifting from value exchange
back to risk-sharing partnership.
If all you can offer besides that face
is nothing substantial to help withstand cycles,
then you're not far from being dumped into the societal pot.
You think you're a rare jade,
but in the market, you're just a brick carefully polished by merchants.
This isn't about denying beauty,
but about seeing clearly the most ruthless unspoken rule in this jungle:
without strength backing it up,
beauty is not wealth; it’s actually a
liability that accelerates your harvest.
If you're still pinning hopes on superficial looks
to make a so-called escape, I tell you, dream on.
In this age where even AI can mass-produce perfect faces,
your only way out is to grow your own
mind and skills that no one can take away.
As for those still self-indulging in filters and illusions of being fairy-like on their phones,
I've said all I need to. The rest depends on your own fate!