The text does not mention, in my opinion, the most toxic status game: moral superiority. If choosing money leads to working all the time, and beauty to mental

The text does not mention, in my opinion, the most toxic status game: moral superiority. If choosing money leads to working all the time, and beauty to mental problems, choosing moral superiority leads to what you started out fighting against - an immoral person. This, in my opinion, happens through radicalization, which is a result of the fight to be "more ideologically pure" than others. The worst thing is, this game seems to be the dominant status game of the western society right now. And we thought the "who has more money" was bad. We should have counted our blessings. Nothing is worse than a fervent believer in the pureness of their own moral standing, who decides that yours is lacking. I used to, wrongly, believe that this level of fervent belief in ones own moral superiority only happens among the religious (with the well documented atrocities that follow). But, unfortunately, political ideology is not much different.