> Evolution has granted this as advantage, because they don’t need to screech and squawk and hide from predators.

It could be demand rather than leisure: "I survived" doesn't work to signal fitness, so they develop something else to fill the need.

I will take the birds of paradise as the extreme, single example of signaling that it is.

Of course signaling is a short cut. You cant transmit your entire lifes experiences to another people in an instant. You signal and read signals.

> "extreme, single example of signaling"

It’s not the extreme outcome that’s the offered exception to your rule. It’s the absence of predators.

Humans, of course, can make choices and cycle faster.

Lease that expensive truck you can't afford to signal your virility? But now you have to work like a dog to keep it from being repossessed. How's your work-life? How's your marriage? Do you see? Trade-offs. Choices. Our predators are algorithms processing your debt data in the hands of your employer.

It doesn't have to be that way. You can make different choices. You can take the bus.