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I can only confirm, since I started buying more expensive clothes (and hardware), people seem to have a better impression of me. (Both in professional and priva

• dxemy 7y ago
  Is it a waste to make people have a better impression of you? Depends on your job I guess?
• hoseja 7y ago
  It's waste by definition. It's social signalling. It's sort of like blockchain proof of work, you show your commitment by displaying hard to fake wasted resources.
  • criddell 7y ago
    Social signalling isn't necessarily a waste, especially if you have a very high profile. When Justin Theroux shows up at an animal shelter and posts a photo of some dogs on Instagram, those dogs get adopted and it raises the profile of those animal shelters.
  • pete762 7y ago
    No, more like hard to fake abundance of resources. Whether they're wasted or not is in the eye of the beholder.
• akhilcacharya 7y ago
  Interesting you bring up "hardware". What do you mean by that?
  • swat535 7y ago
    Presumably a Mac instead of Thinkpad ?
    • akhilcacharya 7y ago
      That was my interpretation initially - I'm guilty of judging people based on this in college. I usually perceived folks in my CS classes that had large 17 inch gaming laptops as being less competent than the folks that had Macbooks. I even recommended a few of my friends switch to Macbooks because of this (which they did). Though in retrospect, this ended up being a pretty valid heuristic.