But doctors make more money and can show off

> Plumbers save more lives than doctors, so become a plumber instead of a doctor if your goal is to save people.

 

The quote above attempts to separate your underlying motivation from the spoken statement. This article kinda shares the same sprit as that of the quote.

 

> But doctors make more money and can show off higher status! Plumbers can't!

 

Good point. So your strategy is to hold up your superfical egocentric snobbery to the front, and act as if you don't have any hidden motives behind? Cool.

 

> Exactly! And thereby I achieve authenticity. You can't achieve the same thing with hidden snobbery.

 

Interesting. So you assume the following?

 

hidden snobbery == performance

 

exposed snobbery == authenticity

 

That I think is a rather nontrivial assumtion, prone to possible refutation, and better not taken for granted.

 

But before that, why, in the first place, are you trying to achieve authenticity at all?