The Invention of Money Was a Massive Accelerator

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Our brains have evolved not to crave money, because ovese money hasn't been around long enough. On our brains is evolved to crave status. And the interesting thing about status, we human brains are so obsessed with it, we can use basically anything to count for status. The invention of money was a massive accelerator in terms of the way to play status games.

Will Storr is an award-winning writer and author of six books, including his newest, The Status Game. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The New Yorker and The New York Times. He has also been presented with the AIB Award for Best Investigative Documentary for his BBC radio series.

Will's book, The Status Game, is available now!

Learn more about Will at willstorr.com.