Yes, but since it's a human situation, you can reverse the causality link. Imagine people use spaces for an underlying reason that gives them naturally a higher

Yes, but since it's a human situation, you can reverse the causality link. Imagine people use spaces for an underlying reason that gives them naturally a higher salary, like Harvard Legacy applicants are taught to use spaces, they don't become wealthy because they use spaces, but because their parents were wealthy. And wealthy people hire the kids of other wealthy people with big salaries. Clearly there is no space => big salary. If you are not born in the nobility that uses spaces, but if at first contact the people in power see you using spaces they might assume you are born a noble, and lower their anti-commoner guard for you and you have a greater chance of entering the nobility without a proper title (don't forget to slam the door after you, nobility only works on exclusivity). So there is a path for taking the implication completely backwards and still reaching the expected outcome.