Developing Skills and Talents:

"Developing skills and talents ... —cultural capital— is the most straightforward and typical way to increase one’s coalitional value. But it requires many years of sustained effort, generally, to pay off. One’s coalitional value therefore increases with age before declining in one’s late 60s and 70s. Consequently, as one maximizes one’s coalitional value in the prevailing coalitional conditions, one should become more conservative, more protective of the coalition’s way of doing things."

Bo Winegard at al.