[hoosieree]

In the sci-fi series The Expanse, there's a Bezos-style rich tycoon character who flaunts his wealth by purposefully not getting hair treatments and instead allows his male pattern baldness to be on display. He's so rich he can afford to not care what anyone thinks, and he wants everyone to know it.

[adamrezich]

Interesting anecdote about a work of fiction, but what does it have to do with anything?

[jakedata]

The comment is referring back to "not compensating for anything". Choosing to keep a balding head and not caring what other people think is a power move when having a full head of hair becomes trivial.

[maxerickson]

It's kind of entertaining that both are vanity.

[rurp]

It seems pretty clearly related to the post it is a reply to.

[adamrezich]

Drawing a moral equivalency to some random event in some random contemporary work of fiction as a means of moralizing isn't some kind of awesome megadunk “own” or anything—it's actually pretty lame.

[thfuran]

Why do you think it was attempting to be anything of the sort?

[unethical_ban]

Guy 1 jokes about how he's so confident in himself he drives a minivan.

Person 2 says "ha that reminds me of a character in a story".

It's two people joking in a subthread.