Symbolic Capital

The rules constantly change on purpose, for the same reason that you change your passwords periodically: because that's how you keep your property secure. One's currency with this permanently evolving discourse is a "costly signal" of one's access to leisure, and therefore of one's legitimacy to speak for that discourse, which is a form of symbolic capital.
Michael Lind, "The New National American Elite" explains it at length.
== Rh ==
Social capital; Mental capital; Sign capital; Status competition
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