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AoM #756 with Will Storr, How the Desire for Status Explains (Pretty Much) Everything.

Brett & Kate McKay, “Podcast #756: How the Desire for Status Explains (Pretty Much) Everything,” The Art of Manliness (blog), November 15, 2021, https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/behavior/podcast-756-how-the-desire-for-status-explains-pretty-much-everything/.

Referencing notes.

  • Increased status is a primary reward for people.
    • Status is the feeling of having value to a social group.
      • Morality can be used to attain status through prestige or dominance.
    • People and groups will do whatever they can to increase status.
    • Failures of status result in dominance behaviors.
    • Sustainable status accrual helps avoid toxic behavior.
    • Social media is a problematic way to seek status.
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