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Currents 089: Erik Torenberg on Status Games

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The Importance of Status Redistribution

I agree that college educated have more status than non-college educated, and that should change. But the question is how? And I think, well, you could tell people to not go to college, but that is unlikely to work. If a we want welders to have higher status, I think we need to uplift the opportunities for welders. The early Israeli kabuts broke many of those status games around occupation by living together in a bubble with norms.

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