Status Substitution: Using An Object With Intellectual Or Fashionable Cachet To Substitute For An Object That Is Merely Pricey

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Status Substitution:
Using an object with intellectual or fashionable cachet to
substitute for an object that is merely pricey: "Brian, you left your
copy of Camus in your brother's BMW."
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X

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