@jetter excuse me I should not have been insinuating, I should have been more direct: apropos, you are correct that the guy with the smallest yacht at the posh yacht club doesn’t care what I think since I don’t own a yacht and don’t belong to his club, but he ABSOLUTELY CERTAINLY cares what the dudes who are club members that have bigger, fancier more expensive yachts say and think about him, it’s human nature given his proclivities.
As to my point about pecking order, Life as currently ordered in a capitalist world and more directly by evolutionary biology is a pecking order whether we are talking hifi systems, girlfriend’s looks, size/quality of yacht* lol or bank account. Those who denigrate expensive hifi gear or yachts or rich folk for being rich folk etcetera are wasting time and looking some combination of envious/foolish/pathetic.
However, I will concede that you might be living in your own world as a Buddhist monk who is free of these considerations/constraints, if so you have my respect 🙏 let us leave it at that?