Rob, you seem to be about 30. Maybe slow down and consider that you don't know everything yet. Having servants is purely a status symbol? Just because Veblen sa

Rob, you seem to be about 30. Maybe slow down and consider that you don't know everything yet. Having servants is purely a status symbol? Just because Veblen said it doesn't make it true. The rich of his era owned palatial estates with hundreds of rooms and acres of topiary. How the hell were they supposed to maintain all this property without servants? A mansion needs a staff, and those staff are servants of the owner. They clearly don't need the actual mansions, but calling the servants themselves nothing but a status symbol is a stretch. Heck, I employ a maid today. Do you know how many people know that? Zero, including the people reading this comment, because none of you know who I am. How can this be signaling if there are zero people being signaled to? How about I already work a full-time job, have ten screws in my spine, and got tired of constantly cleaning my own house, so hired someone else to do it? The graphic you get to at the bottom about defunding the police doesn't even truly support your claim. The top income group supports at a 32% rate. The bottom income group supports at a 22% rate. That isn't some massive discrepancy. Support for this position is clearly not only coming from people living in gated communities with private security. Enough with the arm chair psychoanalysis. Why does every somewhat smart person on the Internet think they know the true inner desires of every other person on the planet that they hide from themselves? I would imagine support for the variety of policy positions represented by the slogan "defund the police" comes from quite a large number of different reasons. Saying the only reason anyone holds this belief is as a status symbol is nonsense. At best, it's a symbol of allegiance to popular-on-the-Internet leftist beliefs. That may be a "status" of a sort, but it isn't an indication that you're a Yale legacy. Indeed, it can't be, as your own graphic is showing it is not a majority belief for any income segment at all. Why would you solidify your belonging to a group by holding a belief that most of that group doesn't agree with?