In the case of vining or climbing Anthuriums, the plants benefit from being provided with a totem to climb.

They would rather distribute money to those above them on the totem pole than help those at the bottom to surpass them.

This is actually quite meaningful to me, because car designers tend to be a little bit low on the totem pole we don't do coffee table books with just one lamp inside of it and cars are thought so much as a product that it's a little bit difficult to get into the aesthetic side under the same sort of terminology that one would discuss art.