I was bewildered when I encountered a new social class at Yale: the luxury belief class. Luxury beliefs are opinions that confer status on the rich at very little cost, while taking a toll on the lower class. The affluent have decoupled social status from goods, and re-attached it to beliefs.

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So our current mass insanity is the result of some rich kids larping to social signal at their peer in the same way poor folks flex by wasting money on a used Mercedes? It's like the shittier version of when the upper class Brits switched up their tea ritual so they'd poor milk at a different time than poor folks.