I shouldn't have used the hat in my argument, I obscured my own point. Yes, it is. Copy/pasting from an answer I gave below: The hat in itself doesn't matter at all, I'm not saying that. What matters is how much time you have it because that's a measure of activity that is erased. That's the status, not the hat in itself. Besides that, it's not the sole point of my argument, nor the most important. My argument is that the same way the hat is defined, the ranking is defined, which I consider detrimental in the way I described.