Status Symbols, Symbols of trust?

Status is another shortcut we use to organize the world around us. We use status symbols on somebody to determine whether they are trustworthy or not. Because if he has made enough money to buy himself some nice clothes, has a nice car that mean somebody else has trusted in him enough to give him the large amounts of money required to acquire these status symbols. Status symbols are more like symbols of trust, your letting the world know you know what the hell you are doing, that your not ful of shit. Preselection, we let other people do the judging for us so we dont have to take the time and risk to find out whether this person is trustworthy. Of course these status symbols can fool us, the guy could have stolen them, they guy could have rich parents, the guy could be a drug dealer, etc. But in our urban world where we see hundreds of new faces everyday, we dont have time for deep analysis, we need to make quick decisions just so we can get on with our busy lives.