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Although these are useful tips and perhaps quite accurate, I don't know if you can truly hack status. I'm not sure what causes status - something reptilian, I g
by zackattack 17y ago
Although these are useful tips and perhaps quite accurate, I don't know if you can truly hack status. I'm not sure what causes status - something reptilian, I guess - and I think that there's only so long that you can micromanage it before its true nature manifests. (Whether you are low-status and pretending to be high status, or high status and pretending to be low-status.)
How to fundamentally change your status identity is a more difficult question and one that I don't have the answer to.
- camccann 17y agoDon't underestimate how much of social status really is nothing but behavior, by which I loosely mean everything that can be "faked". In other words, pretend long enough and you'll become the role you're playing. How much status you can grab that way depends on the extent to which status in a given group depends on objective, un-fakeable traits. If you want to assert status in a wealthy crowd, you need some amount of money to be credible. In a crowd of programmers, knowing something about coding is required. Among athletes you need to be able to keep up physically. Otherwise, it's pretty much all hackable.