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552: Will Storr | Understanding Social Position and the Status Game

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Success Games Have Transformed the World

Virtue games are about the enforcement of kind of moral rules. Success games are those games you play that have a specific definition of what success looks like. If you want to change the world for the better, paradoxically, you don't play virtue games. The industrial revolution was a revolution of success games. We started caring much less about cast, social background and l that other stuff. That's modernity. It's about success games. And if you really want to changethe world, you want to play a there are no kind of pure games. Every game has, i blend of all of those different forms of status. I think the very best games are virtue success games.

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