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Or it's a way to increase your status while not doing your actual job. "Look at how moral I am!". I'm wondering how long this crap will continue. I'm hoping it
by bennysonething 4y ago
Or it's a way to increase your status while not doing your actual job. "Look at how moral I am!". I'm wondering how long this crap will continue. I'm hoping it becomes a cliche and embarrassing soon.
- JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y agoThe elaborate and nonsensical (and costly) virtue/fitness-signaling will only continue to escalate, because just like with clothing fashions, the difficulty and cost of staying in the trendy vanguard is the entire point. Scott Alexander (and probably others) had a pretty good analysis of the phenomenon.
- prottog 4y agoSee also the idea of the "luxury belief" regarding your point that exclusivity is indeed the entire point.
- JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y agoThat’s the term I was searching for!
- Ekaros 4y agoLet's see how economy will do... If things get very tight I think there might be hope that corporations will focus on more important things. Like good products and making profit.
- bennysonething 4y agoYou might have a point here, maybe the era of cheap money funded this nonsense.