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A lot of human behavior starts to make sense once you're familiar with the idea of costly signaling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_principle

Competing in endurance sports, owning expensive cars, and being able to speak intelligently about art or literature are all signals about your personality, wealth, class, and/or intelligence which are hard to fake.



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