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>like who reads the "signals" generated from e.g. the prudent purchase of a used Honda or whatever These social signals form an entire nonverbal language and w
by dougmwne 9y ago
>like who reads the "signals" generated from e.g. the prudent purchase of a used Honda or whatever
These social signals form an entire nonverbal language and we are always speaking. Your used Honda is saying more than you realize. Making decisions without caring what other people think speaks volumes as well.
- fanzhang 9y agoJust because everything you do generates a social signal, doesn't mean everything you do is strongly influenced by the desire to generate that social signal. As a analogy, everything I do might generate some amount of sound. When I'm singing karaoke, the primary goal is to generate that sound. When I move my bookshelf by dragging it across the floor, the sound is incidental. Likewise, I think it's perfectly possible for someone to actually to want to buy the Model X outside of signals it generates for the world, even though it generates a signal.