You seem to be saying that the rules of the game of wealth-as-status are the same as those for fitness-as-status, to take one of your examples. But this is not at all clear to me. Wealth can be stolen and given away. Wealth can be amassed. Fitness is accessible to most people in a way that wealth is not.
That seems like an unbiased reading of that study.
I’d say that it is an overgeneralization of the findings.
Make that “to most people in the developed world”, then. If I want more fitness, I just have to exercise more and eat better, which the majority of people in the developed world could afford with little trouble if they wanted to. (Programs like the 5BX take less than half an hour a day—personally I use Goodbye Couch.) If I want more wealth (and here we’re talking about an amount of wealth that can buy “exceedingly expensive watches or yachts”, not just a couple hundred more dollars per months) there’s very little I can do to reliably achieve that.
You seem to be saying that the rules of the game of wealth-as-status are the same as those for fitness-as-status, to take one of your examples. But this is not at all clear to me. Wealth can be stolen and given away. Wealth can be amassed. Fitness is accessible to most people in a way that wealth is not.
I’d say that it is an overgeneralization of the findings.
In what way is fitness accessible to most people but wealth is not?
Make that “to most people in the developed world”, then. If I want more fitness, I just have to exercise more and eat better, which the majority of people in the developed world could afford with little trouble if they wanted to. (Programs like the 5BX take less than half an hour a day—personally I use Goodbye Couch.) If I want more wealth (and here we’re talking about an amount of wealth that can buy “exceedingly expensive watches or yachts”, not just a couple hundred more dollars per months) there’s very little I can do to reliably achieve that.