[pjc50]

It's funny, I said essentially the same thing as a positive upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177024 - lesson is "don't sound like a jerk", I guess.

People love to show off houses. Kitchens, bathrooms, etc. And spending £10k on a bathroom doesn't even generate electricity!

I have also become an unironic supporter of virtue signalling, provided it's backed up by actually doing the thing yourself. Because otherwise the alternative is "vice signalling", like "rolling coal", which is much, much worse.