I have a significant bias from reading "Overcoming Bias" by Robin Hanson. His "math" is to attribute to status-seeking anything where there's a ... demand curve

I have a significant bias from reading "Overcoming Bias" by Robin Hanson. His "math" is to attribute to status-seeking anything where there's a ... demand curve that doesn't make sense. It's all relative. So "cheap social status" might be substituting working on open source instead of accruing your first billion. It's cheap-er, but still not cheap.