Why? Signal to whom? Who cares? I don't get the need to have status symbols just because one happens to own something scarce and hence expensive. I, too, am successful, and every morning I put on a $17 digital watch, which I bought two years ago to replace the identical one which I bought 15 years earlier, which I bought.... That watch is fine. I'm not trying to impress anyone with my watch, boots, jeans, car, sunglasses (clip-ons, $15.99), or logos.

I don't care if someone else has the same kind of things I have; I care if the things I have work for me and bring me pleasure. A mechanism that contrives to boost the value of things simply because of scarcity -- rather than intrinsic worth, personal pleasure, or utility -- is of no interest to me. That's just about ego. ("I have one and you don't, nyah nyah!")