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#374 - Will Storr - How To Play The Status Game
Modern Wisdom
The Importance of Status
In a study of 17 thousand employees in britain, 70% said they would oct for a more statusfl job title rather than more money. That that shows the importance of status. And it's not an irrational choice to make - you're choosing to get what is essentially just an intangible over a real, explicit, objective, quantifiable asset. The moral status games that we play are acts of shared imagination. All these moral arguments we have with everybody, they don't actually exist. You can't find a moral truth under a microscope or dig it out of the ground.
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