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It's nowhere that complicated.

Everyone likes to feel special/superior. There are many ways to do this. Easy ways are money and power. If you are smart, you can win arguments.

If you aren't any of these things, you can be superior in other ways. You can feel morally superior to those 'millionaires and billionaires'. You can save the planet or the animals, which those others for all their money/power/specialness don't care as much about (or so you tell yourself).

You can become a shameless hedonist. Those corporate fuddy duddies would love this lifestyle, you see, but they are cowards even though they are rich, right?

In every case it's about being unique or on top of those things or making a mark that will last. Special. Valuable.



It's weird that you put "winning arguments" in the category apart from the other Subcultures. Your biased self-image is showing :-)




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