Don't humans generally value relative wealth, which would also make it a zero sum game?

E.g., someone in poverty today isn't particularly comforted by knowing they have luxuries that former kings didn't have, like plumbing, because well-being is tied to relative scales

This is very astute, but I can't help wonder why people worry so much about their status on the bird website. Actually doing/making things in real life is pretty much guaranteed to have a much higher return in multiple dimensions (incl. status) than pretending like what happens there matters.

It doesn't have to be either/or: make something cool, throw out a link to it, repeat.

After subsistence, wealth doesn't provide value except as a way to buy status.