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#374 - Will Storr - How To Play The Status Game

Modern Wisdom

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Status Is More Important Than Sex, Power or Money

We can use anything as a symbol of status. It can be a giant yam, it can be a ferrara or how great an activist we are. But the reason that that examples so funny is that we look at it and think, or yam s how ridiculous. There's nothing any more or less ridiculous of a yam versus o ferrari, or versus being the best social justice warrior. We're not typically content to be thought of as likable, but useless. That's not all we noa's, that's not human nature. And you know, bhat w back in the kind of hunter gatherer days when our brains were doing much of

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