By the same rationale, bikes could be considered a Rube Goldberg machine that people use to indicate status. Maybe not extreme wealth, but signalling physical fitness, plenty of leisure time, disposable income, etc.
Of course that's probably not the case with you. It's likely you personally have deeper motivations than simply indicating status.
I'm not trying to corner you here, and I hope you see how these explanations of the situations are the same except in one case you're the actor, in the other you're the observer.
Of course that's probably not the case with you. It's likely you personally have deeper motivations than simply indicating status.
That's why it's called actor-observer bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93observer_asymmet...
I'm not trying to corner you here, and I hope you see how these explanations of the situations are the same except in one case you're the actor, in the other you're the observer.