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#539 - Sam Tatam - Evolutionary Ideas For Modern Problems

Modern Wisdom

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Why Rich People Like to Drink Sparkling Water?

I noticed something for a while that all of my rich friends, as soon as they ascended out of the working class and into the lower echelons of the beautiful stratosphere that is the middle class, all started drinking sparkling water when we went out for dinner. And I haven't got a fucking clue what's going on. So at an individual level, paying for water might provide sort of more social status than it does hydration. The other side could be actually the restaurants that you frequent with friends in the stratospheric middle class have a placebo choice. They might say, do you want perière or sparkling? I don't even offer you a tap. You're having bottled

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