One of my growing convictions is that values (either explicit or revealed preference in market/non-market environs) simply don’t matter beyond one big purpose: coalition formation through virtue signaling. Behavior is 99% shaped by imitation of what you see working for others.
Speculatively, because prior to the 1960s with the modern airport terminal, traveling had relatively few spaces where rolling your luggage made any sense?
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Possibly. Or people with marble-floored palaces also had servants whose well-being they didn’t have to care about. And bell-carts, which I think predate roller suitcases. But point is, most people probably didn’t go around wishing for wheeled suitcases until they first saw one.
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so what's the value there and how is it being socially signaled?
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not meaning to be adversarial. what I mean is more like "what is the subset of values that ARE primarily social signals" because I reject that this is true for the whole category.
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