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As plane prices went down and most travel can be done with much less money than before, professional photos are easy to take, the hardest to fake part of social status remaining is looks.

Naval won't have the status of Leonardo DiCaprio because he was never looking like him.

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The hardest part of social status is respect of others in high social standing. Looks gets you the opposite sex, and having access, perhaps even sharing that circle, gains you respect. Nothing else really matters in the status game except respect.

There's that old essay that says *power" is the strongest, most unquenchable desire by those afflicted from it.

(Shaw? Nobel prize speech iirc, Acquisition<rivalry<vanity<power)

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