The most prescient account of how the social order will evolve in thriving capitalism is Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class. He predicted the arbitrary pecking order that emerges based on the emerging tastes that people share and the attendant perceptions of class that they espouse as a consequence.
Being a snob in this context is an effort–wholly humurous and vaguely sincere–to recast such notions with the aim of reinforcing, of criticizing, or of mocking to oblivion these notions of taste and social status that denizens of the modern West embrace far too closely and enthusiastically; perhaps as a means of determining if any method drives the madness.
If any truth or measure of substance is contained in the prose on this site, it will assuredly be the fact that the views expressed here belong to a person who has lived a life of unrivaled privilege. Someone who is not a member of the economic elite but who has firmly occupied the upper echelons of the economic classes since birth; someone who grew up in a loving household; someone who is exceptionally well-educated, as a consequence; and someone who is fed up with and horrified by the level intellectual laxity and indolence that dominates modern discourse.
If you disagree on this final point, then please allow me to dispense with your objection with the tagline of the header.
Enjoy your stay.