And of course, many US gatherings are also means to move up the social ladder. Meeting new connections, finding mates, or getting intel on an area. Very capitalistic oriented.
just like every other claim on this thread, that depends on who you spend time with, and you can find the same behavior in literally any country
Like any other engineering, it's not about perfection. Being able to peedict that even 10% of these 340m people do a certain thing a certain way is enough to capture and establish a trend. That's all I'm doing here.
Any sooner: my going rate for my findings is $3000 up front to resume and finalize my findings.
Capitalism matters less than the hyper individualistic culture here. But one drives the other in this case (other things can drive individualism too).