Just play the cards you are dealt

What you say is true to an extent, but you say it too absolutely.
That one football player who got rich on ecommerce? He might have actually been smart, too. Your looks don't help you with ecommerce, it's the goods, the site, and the marketing that do it. Certainly his looks would help him hire people, but unless he was already a trust fund kid, he wouldn't have been able to do that. Most football chads are losers by age 30, marry some roastie they knocked up, and get fat. How do you explain that?
Looks absolutely provide an unfair advantage. If you can't looksmax all the way to the top, then lookmax enough that others' looks are less of an advantage over you. Then maybe scarymax the rest of the way, or moneymax, or skillsmax. Jews seem to do great on the money and power front and they look like shit! It's not over, it's just not easy.