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cheap social status is an oxymoron (social status is zero sum) unless the status is perceived instead of real.
by richcollins 15y ago
cheap social status is an oxymoron (social status is zero sum) unless the status is perceived instead of real.
- abstractbill 15y agoI'm not sure that's true. Any time you ask what someone's social status is, you have to qualify that question to within a particular group. If you expand the group to "everyone on the planet", I think you're talking about fame, which seems different to social status.
- lcargill99 15y agoI have a significant bias from reading "Overcoming Bias" by Robin Hanson. His "math" is to attribute to status-seeking anything where there's a ... demand curve that doesn't make sense. It's all relative. So "cheap social status" might be substituting working on open source instead of accruing your first billion. It's cheap-er, but still not cheap.