The elephant in the room (or even a mammoth?) is the social status. If it's not at the center of the analysis, the predictions will be flawed and the actions wi

The elephant in the room (or even a mammoth?) is the social status. If it's not at the center of the analysis, the predictions will be flawed and the actions will drive you in circles. The pieces of paper with "five dollars" printed on them, and the ways they travel between wallets (aka "the System"), form a very thin layer over the reality of social status (and other more intricate machinery between our collective pairs of ears). There are not many things that can be corrected inside that thin layer, there is about 5000 years of history of innovation in this field already.