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The article “Luxury Beefs” by Simon Pearce is a sharp, well-oiled synthesis: Venkatesh Rao’s Internet of Beefs (feudal attention-harvesting machine) + Rob Henderson’s luxury beliefs (elite signaling gadget) + Peter Turchin’s disintegrative-phase intra-elite overproduction. It correctly diagnoses current online discourse as less “chaotic culture war” and more a self-reinforcing grievance-to-status converter inside a manorial economy…