Luxury Signal Erosion Lab — Neuro-Cognitive Mainstream Devaluation Simulator

Aggregated Prestige Erosion

-58.4%

Net perceptual delta vs. virgin luxury

Mean Striatal Reward (RPE)

0.34 μV

Attenuated from baseline 0.88 μV

Snob Flight Threshold

81.2%

High-bracket abandonment risk

Veblen Price Inversion

-0.42

Reverted to ordinary price sensitivity

Prestige Valuation vs Mainstream Saturation Decay Trajectory

Cohort Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) vs Exposure N=35 Cohort Scatter

Neurological & Market Diagnosis: Analyzing the N=35 simulated case cohort under 72% mainstream saturation reveals marked counter-signaling behavior. When high-prestige stimuli become mass-diffused across mainstream visual media, the patrician cohort exhibits immediate striatal dopamine desensitization, collapsing willingness-to-pay by 62%. Conversely, aspirational segments demonstrate brief bandwagon absorption before total prestige exhaustion.

N=35 Synthetic Study Cohorts (Tally Behavioral Protocol)

Showing 35 of 35 Subjects

Case ID	Age Brk	Income Band	Cognitive/Cultural	Stimulus Choices	Perceived Exclusivity	WTP Post-Banalization	Neural Attenuation	Status