> mortified to show off a $10,000 watch, but excitedly tell you about their $100,000 kitchen remodel filled with 100-mile diet cookbooks and single-origin Japanese knives, or their 6-month work sabbatical they spent powerlifting. This is a group of people where a Subaru is a higher-status car than a Cadillac, but the highest status car is none.
Very Boulder, CO
this reads like an AI clickbait.
it does make Rao's original article a little easier to digest but it was already pretty tight through the first 3-4 parts.