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STATUS: Does Our Need for It Explain ... Everything?

The Next Big Idea

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The Status Game Is a Zero Sum Game

Claim that our obsession with status is a zero sum game by definition. Not everyone can be high status, right? There have to be losers in the status game. It's a disaster to the egalitarian dream because it says it's an impossibility. The communist experiment kind of proves that,. you know, everything from the crazy level of kind of class stratification had in the Soviet Union... Stalin was still alive.

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