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The tech industry preaches meritocracy but practices brand worship. FAANG elitism isn’t just individual arrogance — it’s a corporate retention strategy that weaponizes status. Your badge doesn’t measure your skill. It’s time to stop playing the logo game and judge code, not company names.
The real reason you’re not reading books isn’t a lack of attention span. It’s an identity shift. You no longer need to signal being ‘well-read’; you need to signal being ‘connected and curious.’ The guilty pleasure of feeds is actually a new way of being an intellectual—one that’s community-driven, fragmented, and infinitely more relevant to the modern world. The apology stops here.
Your brilliant ideas are being ignored not because they lack merit, but because you lack status. The marketplace of ideas is a myth; it’s a marketplace of social standing. If you want your concept to change the world, stop arguing for its truth and start finding a high-status champion to steal and rebrand it.
Young people are wealthier than ever, yet they feel broker than ever. The real crisis isn’t a lack of money — it’s that money no longer buys the status markers (houses, weddings, stability) that previous generations took for granted. This article unpacks the status gap that explains modern generational anxiety.