Cultural brain · Rituals, Gifts & Life Scripts
Experiential Status
Experiences have replaced possessions as status markers in many groups, and experiences do yield more lasting satisfaction — but experiential status is still status, and it is now sold as such.
An everyday example
The trip taken partly to be posted.
What it can cost you
Buying experiences for display; assuming experiential spending is immune to positional games.
Warning signs
- I plan for the photos.
- My experiences compete with others'.
One thing to do
Choose experiences for what they are to you; skip the parts that exist to be seen.
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