Speed‑consumption as status signal

People increasingly play longform audio and video at 2x–3x speed, treating accelerated consumption as a marker of efficiency or tech-savviness. That practice can become a social signal (especially among tech professionals) and reshapes expectations for attention, patience, and conversational tempo. — If accelerated consumption becomes normative it lowers tolerance for depth and slows collective deliberation, while creating new status hierarchies based on 'time‑compression' skills.