You draw a contrast between mimetic desire and desire for money and status, yet money is that which only has value because other people want it, and status is that which other people seek to imitate. You can make an arbitrary choice between conceptually reifying the object of mimetic desire or mimetic desire itself, but I don’t see how it changes the conclusion.
You draw a contrast between mimetic desire and desire for money and status, yet money is that which only has value because other people want it, and status is that which other people seek to imitate. You can make an arbitrary choice between conceptually reifying the object of mimetic desire or mimetic desire itself, but I don’t see how it changes the conclusion.