Wait, isn’t that last point a *bad* thing? “Keeping up appearances” / signaling classiness as hard as you can might eat your entire life if you let it, while optimizing for efficiency leaves you with free time / energy / resources to do worthwhile things?
Uh, what do you mean by worthwhile things? I agree that it’s good for my job to be optimized for effectiveness and stuff. But I think a lot of my leisure time should be optimized for what I enjoy, and it so happens that signaling is one of my favorite leisure activities.