It feels like you switch around how you use snobbery. At the beginning you give the definition “with this belief, I eliminate a class of problems other people have.”
To me, that usage doesn’t seem like it has much to do with the standard notion of snobbery, but that’s not a huge deal. Though with your tiping and hacker news example, it seems like you go back to using snobbery to mean holding “elitist beliefs ”.
Also, it didn’t like you actually made a case for the general utility of holding snobish beliefs (if that’s what you were trying to argue for). The tipping example seemed to be making a particular case for the act of tipping, that didn’t seem related to the fact that tipping well could be considered a classic snobish behaviour. In the hacker news example, it seems you were pointing out that if you needed to win over people who had free-floating snobbish beliefs, that it can sometimes benefit you to shout the same slogan as them.
It feels like you switch around how you use snobbery. At the beginning you give the definition “with this belief, I eliminate a class of problems other people have.”
To me, that usage doesn’t seem like it has much to do with the standard notion of snobbery, but that’s not a huge deal. Though with your tiping and hacker news example, it seems like you go back to using snobbery to mean holding “elitist beliefs ”.
Also, it didn’t like you actually made a case for the general utility of holding snobish beliefs (if that’s what you were trying to argue for). The tipping example seemed to be making a particular case for the act of tipping, that didn’t seem related to the fact that tipping well could be considered a classic snobish behaviour. In the hacker news example, it seems you were pointing out that if you needed to win over people who had free-floating snobbish beliefs, that it can sometimes benefit you to shout the same slogan as them.