The Prince Charles Paradox

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The prince charles paradox, i's trying to kind of work out. There's a puzzle, because e prince charles is both high status and low status at the same time. You can't go near him without without showing how high status is bean your highness. That's the status game right there. And yet, i think he's got something like er. 50 % approval rating. He's not very well, particularly well liked by the general public. But in some of the kind of worst examples, like starlyan, you know, these people who are very high status formerly, but they can sense they're not that iner,.That people actually don't think t

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