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I'm not saying this is okay either, but it's the way the world is, isn't it? Humanity isn't doing a great job overall, at least in an absolute sense, and part of that is that adults absolutely do buy stupid status symbols to flex on each other.
I think explaining is a very worthy pursuit. As for tolerating, I'm not actually in charge, so I don't have a choice!
Exactly. And when they do, we don't say "Well, that's just what humanity does".
We say "Despise these covetous pricks".
I don't really see what that would help. I'd be angry all the time, and I'd seem like a judgemental prick to a lot of other people.
If I had an opportunity to cure people of wanting to do this, I would. When I have an opportunity to tactfully point it out, and that it's irrational, I do. Otherwise, everyone I've ever met is part of one problem or another.