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  I wonder how this holds today with increased dependence on screen time for both work and play.
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  Probably have it’s origin in the olden days when glasses were mostly used for reading and reading was mostly done by the educated and education wasn’t for everyone.
  During the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia in the 70s they executed people with glasses as they were suspected intellectuals. >
  
  Ole’ Pol Pot, completed fucked a country, killed millions and got away with it. >
  
  Isn’t there a comedian who asks in one of his standups “why didn’t they simply take the glasses off when he was coming”? >
  
  The obvious punchline: They wouldn't have seen them coming. >
  
  Hey dude, if I have to live with glasses my whole life can I at least look smart for it >
  
  Yeah, thanks OP now I get to feel defective and dumb for the rest of the day. >
  
  A defect one is motivated to transcend in order to read and learn more. >
  
  Disagree >
  
  Good talk. Got a lot out of your comment. >
  
  Agree >
  
  My man is verbally upvoting >
  
  Neither agree nor disagree >
  
  Reading is actually a causative factor in humans needing glasses. Not the only one, but a big external one. The strain over time of making your eyes focus on small writing or print eventually causes short-sightedness as your eyes attempt to adapt to this weird thing you are doing. Evolution didn’t give us eyes designed for reading. 
  Therefore, once glasses were invented to correct this, if you needed them, it was likely that you read a lot. If you read a lot, you were probably smart and didn’t need to spend all day in the fields, obviously. So wearing glasses became associated with intelligence and elevated social standing. 
  While less true today, the association remains.