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Sam Harris: Status is one of those things that once you begin thinking about it, you see it everywhere and realize that it was doing its mad work all the while without you thinking much about it. Today I'm speaking with Will Store, an award-winning writer who has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. We talk about the role that status plays in human life and culture.

Sam Harris speaks with Will Storr about the role that status plays in human life and culture. They talk about the taboo around caring about status, egalitarianism, the perpetual insecurity of status, how we play multiple status games simultaneously, identity, social connection, dominance, virtue, success, status as an evolved mechanism, gossip, status and health, the consequences of humiliation, the role of social media, status and politics, conspiracy thinking, moral panics, status and philanthropy, and other topics.

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