Movies and other such pleasures are so cheap compared to the big line items in life. I don&#x27;t think anyone studies to get into college and work a job for 40 years for the sake of watching movies. People do these arduous things mostly, I believe, for the sake of status. If you did not care about status, as many don&#x27;t, you could rent a small one bedroom apartment in an inexpensive place and work an easy job to make ends meet, and still watch movies or play video games, what have you.<p>Social status can be fractured, but eventually people come into conflict for people, places, and things. We don&#x27;t live in independent streams. We fight over the best apartments, the best cars, the best mates, the best stocks, etc. Then status, money, and power come into play.