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Should You Play Status Games? [Jenny Blake]

The Examined Life

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The Blend of Status and Virtue

"I feel guilty when I see all what my friends are doing and I should get in touch with that person," he says. "Social media is status games writ large at a global scale." He's not on social media because the volume of the status games 'overwhelms' him. But by me saying, Oh, I'm not onsocial media and I really haven't been active for 10 years in any meaningful way in a way that's a virtue flex,. That's like, Oh, well, look at me, I quit. Like you said, I've never really thought of it that way".

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