Just 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. A

Just 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.