It's an interesting idea. Reducing behaviour to a compulsive, hardwired, and irrational status instinct bypasses the nonsense about supposedly rational actors a

It's an interesting idea. Reducing behaviour to a compulsive, hardwired, and irrational status instinct bypasses the nonsense about supposedly rational actors and such in economics. It also explains why why follower-chasing and like-farming on social media are a thing. And why too much is never enough. It's literally a game that can't be won, so millionaires try to become billionaires, and billionaires try to become trillionaires, and so on to infinity. But this would be so much more credible with some solid supporting research instead of unsupported opinion.