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Originally Posted by Kevin of Larchmont
Speaking of naive you are completely missing the clear, obvious and repeated point: it doesn’t matter what someone thinks and keeps in their own head about us, none of us can ever know this and who cares if we are being silently judged. Unless the person judging behaves differently towards us then they aren’t bestowing or acknowledging any status towards the person they are observing and silently thinking about. So if we are wearing Rolexes as status symbols the only measure of this supposed status is a visible reaction to it. I don’t wear my watch to get a reaction although it sounds by your description as if you might and that’s OK but sometimes a watch, even a very nice watch, is just a watch.
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So you’re saying, the only way you can get some type of status benefit from wearing a Rolex (or anything for that matter) is if someone walks up to you, looks you dead in the face and says “Hey! nice Rolex” ?
And that when people treat someone differently because of some outward characteristic, they always announce that’s what they are doing?
You can’t possibly believe that. Or you’ve led a very sheltered life. I’m going with “intentionally obtuse”