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I think your social standing has a lot more to do with money than behavior. If you're rich and live in a van you're interesting, otherwise you're just homeless. If your gig is a successful business you're independent, if it's Uber you're barely surviving.

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Disagree. I think your social status has more to do with your conformity to neoliberal values than it does money. Sure, money can buy nice things and attract friends. Just look at Kanye.

The richer you are the broader the range of behavior you can get away with. But the spectrum of all behavior in which this acceptable range lives moves.

Warren Buffet can't have a side gig running scrap in an unregistered truck with a Newport hanging out of his mouth.

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