Literally speaking, costly social signaling decreases the overall fitness of the population, sometimes to extinction. Illustrating the blindness of evolution. Draw your own analogies to the current extreme social signaling in Western countries.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/984214156596277248 …
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yeah hard to signal courage and honor when you're a fecking ostracod mate
My take: Modern social signaling is cheap for the individual (mostly), but has negative social costs that reduce the fitness of the society.
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Some people blame lower fertility on it but causality is hard to entablish here http://www.univforum.org/en/article/conspicuous-consumption-cause-plummeting-birth-rates … Not sure how cheap it is when people spend most excess income on positional goods like expensive watches and other abominations. But for evo standards just $ cheap I guess
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can you explicitly name the policy you are thinking about?
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