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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
True, but an autographed first edition of Don Quixote or a Gutenberg Bible would be impressive.
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I see your Don Quixote, and raise you a picture of me with Picasso posing by his original DQ sketch... which he gifted to me.
For the bible, I raise you video footage of me unearthing the previously undiscovered bible in an Austrian castle ruin, with professional archeologists surrounding me in awe of my find.
Okay, I guess I'm done with these analogies! (Anybody got a Dos Equis?)
Signs of status change over time. Once it was land... once it was gold... once it was slaves... once it was books. (Right now, I'd say celebrity is today's sign of status.) What will it be next? Experience? Health? Social media contacts? Gardening prowess? How many microbrews you've sampled? Who knows?
But I don't think large physical displays of anything will be the status symbols of the future. I think we're moving past that.