Status Signaling
understanding the subtle and interesting ways in which humans signal their status and reputation
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Status Signaling
Just proved the thesis of this piece - on the endless selfish human desire to signal - in adding this to my sublime nail painting emoji
The Ideas of Rene Girard: An Anthropology of Religion and Violence
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Twitter Blue feels like a missed revenue opportunity.
People don't pay for features. They pay for social capital and status signaling.
Twitter could 10x the monetization potential of this by adding things like paid verifications, badges and profile page cosmetics.
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Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Culture: An Owner's Manualculture.ghost.io
The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.
The Society of the Spectacle Quotes by Guy Debord
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
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