We are told that being tall gives you an advantage in our culture, particularly if you are a male. For example, taller men earn more money on average than their shorter counterparts. If you’re six-feet-two or taller, you’re likely to start a new job at a salary 12.4 percent higher than someone under six feet. It doesn’t make sense and it’s not fair, but that is the way it is. Each extra inch of height is worth an extra $600 a year on average.

In 1987 they did a survey of 1,200 MBAs. Average salary of those surveyed: $43,000. Six-footers typically earned $4,200 more than men who were five-foot-five in comparable jobs. There is one caveat: if the six-footer was also overweight, the figures cancelled out. This is, of course, another area of discrimination. A man who was at least 20 percent o…