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How Whole Foods, yoga, and NPR became the hallmarks of the elite

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Status

Sally Kohn: One of my underlying models of human beings to just be very blunt about it is that we're status monsters. We are exquisitely attuned to our status within the group, the tribe and then now like the workplace,. She says many people who work in government or an NGOs or their high have been in a company. And so like maybe the trick of human life is yoking these powerful elemental desires for status to just better rather than worse motivators?Kohn: I take your point that it seems to have changed from the 80s and 90s, right? There's a way in which Donald Trump in his pre-political configuration was the apex of that

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