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Prof. Scott Galloway on the popularity of "vanity capital"

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Excerpt from Quartz -- "We buy things that make us somehow feel we are better—more attractive, more powerful—and that show the outside world that we’re good enough, smart enough, and people like us. Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business, goes a step further, saying the cachet that all vanity capital carries is distinctly libidinous. 'Men want to spread their seed to the four corners of the world,' he says, and women want their choice of mate. Anything that projects prestige or increases our physical attractiveness helps us accomplish those goals."

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