Status Competition in the Post Affluent World

"I think one of the major problems is that politics in the post affluent world is mostly about status. I mean, it's even, it was slightly sort of prophesied," he says. "You can never have, you can never want, you can have as much as you like, you still want more." The idea that status is basically unending and ours is actually quite a drain and quite miserable thing", he adds. 'We don't sort of need to fight over food or women or castles or whatever'