>2. Status can’t pay the rent >Unlike wages, status is extremely difficult to directly exchange for goods and services. You need an intermediary, such as a per

>2. Status can’t pay the rent >Unlike wages, status is extremely difficult to directly exchange for goods and services. You need an intermediary, such as a person desperate to market their latest brand of protein powder or neo-fascist authoritarianism, who will pay you for access to your status. This should be number 1, and probably the only item on the list. The word influencer should evoke in you a deep dread. Sure there's neo fascist authoritarians, but they aren't really the dangerous ones. It's the sales people. In order to convince a person that they need to buy something, you usually have to get them to believe something that isn't true. That's obviously not a stable system.