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Professionalism has a ceiling, I guess.
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Same exact principle as how many of them like to dress in jeans and t-shirts. They think that it demonstrates that they're so significant and intrinsically powerful that they've transcended the need to signal wealth and power. But it's really just another level of signaling: trying to signal that they don't need to signal, which is in some way even more poser-ish and pathetic
Tbf if I got all the rich you'd never be able to tell by outward appearance, it'd take you a sec to be like "hey wait a minute, do you have like, a job? How do you afford living?" I'd pay off my house, keep my used car, keep wearing my dumb clothes, you'd start questioning when all the camera lenses and expensive whiskey rolled in but only if you knew me and bourbon well.
If dressing flashy is signaling wealth and dressing down is a subtler signal of transcendental wealth and power, then what should they wear?
The other commenter has a point. Maybe they're just wearing what they really want to, idunno. They should wear whatever they want. But the fact that they all ubiquitously have started to address casual in the last couple of years makes me doubt that that's what they want. On the other hand, I don't see billionaires as being the type of tasteful people who would care to commission custom clothes or anything artistic that expresses themselves, etc etc.
I would say their actions are a better measure of character than their clothing
Well, yes, of course I agree