The Status Game

I very much want to have this merit based, yay, success kind of thing. I don't want to like revert to some kind of dark way and poor people stop to death because we don't need them. Some people just don't have the genes or the childhood or the personality in which they can compete with some of these kind of people who are just very lucky to have slipped out of the right womb. Are there periods of time that have greater deficits for the average person in terms of status they crave? Yeah. So well, obviously in medieval times when it was the king versus the serfs and peasants, that's a huge, you know, huge, status differential. In