This has been my model too, deriving from EitB. But it’s probably not just about preventing the over-saturation, it’s also to the benefit of those who are more skilled at signaling covertly to promote a norm that disadvantages who only have skills, but not the covert-signaling skills.
Yeah, I see those playing together in the form of the base norm being about anti-competition, and then people can’t want to enforce the norm from general “I’ll get punished if I don’t support it” and “I personally can skillfully subvert, so enforcing this norm helps me keep the unskilled out”.
This has been my model too, deriving from EitB. But it’s probably not just about preventing the over-saturation, it’s also to the benefit of those who are more skilled at signaling covertly to promote a norm that disadvantages who only have skills, but not the covert-signaling skills.
Yeah, I see those playing together in the form of the base norm being about anti-competition, and then people can’t want to enforce the norm from general “I’ll get punished if I don’t support it” and “I personally can skillfully subvert, so enforcing this norm helps me keep the unskilled out”.