Status Signaling

“People like us do things like this”

Last night I mentioned to my friend a Frank Lloyd Wright house. I realized as I was saying it that I was giving a status signal. I was telling him that I knew who Wright was and I assumed that he also knew. We were in the same social class. It would have been a culture shock if he didn’t know who FLW was.

The photo is of apple trees trained onto trellises like grapes somewhere in the UK.


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