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People definitely do seem to like status. I think part of it is that competence is much harder to check for than status. Status is inherently very "legible", w
by alecbz 4y ago
People definitely do seem to like status.
I think part of it is that competence is much harder to check for than status. Status is inherently very "legible", which can make it useful even if it only kind of correlates with competence.
- dqpb 4y ago> competence is much harder to check for than status Is it? I've always thought that competence is much harder to cheat than status. The way I see it, the whole point of status is to decouple authority from competence.
- alecbz 4y agoIt's contextual for sure, but one example: it's way easier to see "Harvard" on a resume than to conduct an interview that accurately assesses for skill, which is why you end up with things like resume screens ahead of interviews.