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Will Storr - The Status Game - On Human Life and How to Play It

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What Do We Enjoy to the Status We Want to Achieve?

In the days of the tribe, our tribe was the whole world. It's much harder to feel like that in the 20 first century. We've evolved to play small status games in relatively small groups of people. And we haven't evolved o play status games on the corporate level where we're not one of 25 people. So sine is, so, you know, i'm convinced that lot of the 20 first Century misery and alienation and hopelessness that we feel,. it's because we feel it's much harder for us to feel of value in the modern world than it was back in thedays of the tribe.

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