The Quest for Status Is a Big Problem Right

"We're stuck in the giant system of academia that has like tons and tons of flaws" "The quest for status turns you into the kind of person who's not going to change the system so that's a big problem right?" "I would quantify as saying yes things are slowly getting better but the rate at which things are getting better is plausibly a factor of 100 less than it could be if we had better institutions" 'There's too much there's too much self-justifying one of the reasons that I suggested this reading for us'