How Do You Measure Status?

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"Status is impressively multi-dimensional and it shifts because you can be, it can be for the purpose of any specific encounter or conversation who has high status and who doesn't," he says. "We're so amazing at playing these status games. We can use anything to measure status. It's certainly not all about money."

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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