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Peter David Jones's avatar

Why not earn the minimum amount of money necessary to prevent starvation while you are at it? What I am trying to establish is whether you don't care about status (or self actualisation) at all, or you are being selective).

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Daniel Carrier's avatar

Assuming I cared about that, it sounds like a zero sum game. If my nation gets more cultured, it will raise the standard, and some other nation will now look like a cultureless barbarian in comparison. I'm certainly not willing to pay money to change the pecking order. Besides, this way I can laugh at foreigners and call them overly-cultured snobs.

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