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People now show off wealth via cars, clothes, etc., health via sports, hard drinking, etc., & smarts via vocabulary, degrees, etc. Such signaling might happen less if we published easy-found official tests/measures of everyone's wealth, health, & smarts. Do you support doing so?
It's easy to answer this if you start by asking "Is it a big problem that people currently have to signal such things?" Only an economist would say yes.
Maybe psychologists too?
If so, maybe only an economist would be right! We DO make waste via excessive signaling of such things.
If the signal is actually really valuable, cutting the costs of the signal is definitely valuable.
True. Poorer people think that money buys privilege. To some degree, yes, but to be accepted into the upper echelon of the society, you must have the correct opinions and show them.
Showing off is admitting that you're insecure. The problem is inside the showoff.
Incidentally, it's probably not even true that publishing details would eliminate signalling. People in England in 1850 expended great effort signalling their ancestry, despite the fact that every detail was published in Debrett's. Signalling is used to remind, not just inform.
Sure, we want to show off 100 dims of who we are, and this would only publish 3 of them. Even so, might cut waste re those 3 dims, & allow us to focus on other 97.
Greed is by far the world's biggest and worst problem. Live simple and maybe all will live.
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