The 'you just need to be hot' meme is cope from people who don't put in the effort.
There is more to it than being hot, but how hot you are puts a ceiling on what you can accomplish with effort and and on the learning curve difficulty. The reason being hot is so important is because it allows you fuck up without it being fatal, which makes the rest far easier to learn. Chad both learns how to deal with women exponentially faster than Billy Beta and his knowledge goes way further. So even if Billy can conquer the nightmare learning curve he's still putting up with a ton of bullshit that Chad doesn't have to, and for a shittier payout to boot. I think that's where a lot of the "you just need to be hot" narrative comes from. It's not that you'll be an incel if you're not, but the end result won't be worth the time/effort/aggravation. That's why I always say be Chad or don't bother.
Being Hot is Step 1. If you lack it, you aren't even getting in the door to do literally anything else. Its what creates the first impression and no amount of negotiation can undo it. If you hot, she will hear out what you have to say, or if you are really hot she will just come along on her own.
You guys are over thinking this. She is looking at non-hot guys like a crackshack. Sure the land might be good and the foundation still solid and the work almost minimal for the low price, but none of that matters because its a fucking crackshack ick, eww, gross.
There is more to it than being hot, but how hot you are puts a ceiling on what you can accomplish with effort and and on the learning curve difficulty. The reason being hot is so important is because it allows you fuck up without it being fatal, which makes the rest far easier to learn. Chad both learns how to deal with women exponentially faster than Billy Beta and his knowledge goes way further. So even if Billy can conquer the nightmare learning curve he's still putting up with a ton of bullshit that Chad doesn't have to, and for a shittier payout to boot. I think that's where a lot of the "you just need to be hot" narrative comes from. It's not that you'll be an incel if you're not, but the end result won't be worth the time/effort/aggravation. That's why I always say be Chad or don't bother.
Being Hot is Step 1. If you lack it, you aren't even getting in the door to do literally anything else. Its what creates the first impression and no amount of negotiation can undo it. If you hot, she will hear out what you have to say, or if you are really hot she will just come along on her own.
You guys are over thinking this. She is looking at non-hot guys like a crackshack. Sure the land might be good and the foundation still solid and the work almost minimal for the low price, but none of that matters because its a fucking crackshack ick, eww, gross.