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How and Why We Play Social Status Games - Will Storr
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The history of the status game goes back to those tribes, the tribes in which we revolved. So how do you get these creatures that have a tendency toward selfishness to be selfless and to work for the benefit of the tribe? We incentivie them with status. And statuss is this reward. It isn't n it can be a negative. There's lots of negatives in the book about about the bad sides of thestatus game. But it's alsoat hat's made civilization. It's what, its what makes us good people. When we see people like gandy or amine as heroic without making them celebrities, they are moral per stars. That's good that's
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