[yourapostasy]

> ...carrying around one of those large key rings with literally a mass amounts of keys makes people more interested knowing about you. It is implied access to many protected valuable items.

An interesting FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) subculture consciously eschews such markers, and even advocates deliberately signaling the opposite. I'm beginning to wonder if developed world, middle-to-upper class long-term mate selection criteria are adding increasingly subtle, sophisticated cues on top of the more conventional ornamentally-oriented signals, and that is acting as another selection pressure for intelligence. For all the Instagram dreck that floats out there, I see an astonishing number of Zoomers and Millenials who, compared to previous generations, are far more financially sophisticated and aware of cognitive biases used to sell to them, and are assiduously avoiding adopting conventional success markers.