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We're a social species. We are constantly scrutinizing one another. The author's thesis seems overly baroque: "evolution had humans use their absolute income/we
by drewcoo 5y ago
We're a social species. We are constantly scrutinizing one another. The author's thesis seems overly baroque: "evolution had humans use their absolute income/wealth to judge their relative status." And that's not considering that evolution didn't have a damned thing to do with income even though heredity does have to do with taxes.
- amelius 5y agoAlso status is highly context dependent. For example, a person can feel high status at work, but when visiting e.g. some physics conference can suddenly feel very low status. And no amount of money would help.