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These things tend to flow down from the habits of the rich.
True. I remember reading one time about the tit-for-tat that the rich and poor play with childrens names.
"Britney" becomes a rich kids name, then the poor start naming their kids that (to attach themselves to the positive connotations of the name), then the rich realize its no longer a high-status name so they move to "Emma" and the cycle continues...
that's not a tit-for-tat dynamics... rather a +1-lagging domino, or cat chasing its own tail sort of thing.
That rich people then change the names they choose is a bit tit-for-tat like.
tit-for-tat is a deliberate trade with someone else, no? Often in a venal sort of "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" way. How can that be the same as the naming convention trends freetx mentioned...?
tit-for-tat is a repeated game strategy where you defect after your opponent defects and cooperate after they cooperate.
If the rich perceive the poor choosing from a different set of names as cooperation, then this is potentially tit-for-tat: i.e. the rich will stick with their stuffy rich people names unless the poors start coopting them.
oh man, what am I thinking about?!
Your usage is an example of tit-for-tat: I choose to scratch your back if you scratched mine and I don't if you didn't.
That's a very encouraging trend. These things tend to flow down from the habits of the rich.