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The Evolution of Social Paradoxes
We conceal our status seeking motivations in order to achieve higher status. This tendency to seek status by concealing our desire for status is one example of a social paradox. And so these kinds of social paradoxes lie at the heart of human culture and cultural evolution. It's because they're constantly collapsing under the realization that they are status symbols.