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Richard Hanania Returns: How Status Competition Created the Culture War

From the New World

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The Importance of Honesty in Society

I think you're interpreting me saying like people wanted to deprive others of resources as purely economic, right? I don't think that's the case. I think they want to deprive them of both, both like actual resources in the case of someone like Musk, but also status, right? The primary motivator is right when you're more honest about individual differences and let's say like competence or let's say intelligence as one manifestation of Competence. Then you are more than you're weighing things basically more towards production, more towards the ability to actually do things and less towards social climate. These people are basically, you know, their entire life is social climbing. And of course they're oriented

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