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Ask HN: What are some surprising ways to gain social status?
- Group_B 4y agodon’t be a dick
- annyeonghada 4y agoIn my experience people love douchebags, especially if they are attractive and talk with confidence about things they have no idea about.
- solarmist 4y agoIt's not the douchebag part they love. It's the lack of fear/timidness that people love.
- MPlus88 4y agoGet rich.
- baxtr 4y agoI think you missed the "surprising" part.
- notenoughbeans 4y agoLearn how to throw a great party.
- solarmist 4y agoThis isn't surprising, but I haven't thought about it as something to learn before... Any advise?
- notenoughbeans 4y agoI think the surprising thing is that you can learn how to do it. As for that, it depends on your what your social circle looks like. I learned how to cook a couple great meals and how to make a couple fancy cocktails. I invited a few friends over that told my other friends. I slowly integrated different people from different areas of my life and now I'm that guy that throws fun cocktail parties. It's not the same sort of social status as driving a fancy care, but it has increase my social status amongst people I actually care about.
- solarmist 4y agoVery cool. And a great approach. Thank you for sharing!
- tw98521358 4y agoYou can’t throw a great party without people showing up. You need good people for good parties. The party is the proof of existing value
- austinjp 4y agoStart small, iterate. That's how you learn :)
- bennysonething 4y agoPretend to be virtuous by posting about some issue on twitter. Even better find someone to publicly shame on twitter.
- nh23423fefe 4y agoYou're doing the same thing. You are pretending to be virtuous and shaming people you don't like. One assumes your virtue is, "telling it like it is"
- MathMonkeyMan 4y agoAs are you, and so am I.
- bennysonething 4y agoPossibly, but then you are now doing the same thing! Also my hacker news account is anonymous, on twitter accounts tend to be people posting as themselves. (I haven't posted on twitter before, mainly because of that).
- thenerdhead 4y agoBe extremely negative and spread that negatively on social media. You're more likely to gain a following of people who dislike the same things as you than people who like the same things as you.
- lucifargundam 4y agoGaslight everyone you know into believing you're important, and act like you solve everyone's problems each time something happens- without actually doing anything. Then proceed to post about all your "honest", "hard" work on social media.
- solarmist 4y agoThis isn't surprising; this is disdainful.
- funemployed 4y agoA surprising way to gain social status is to develop an independent sense of morals and treat people according to your ethical code.
- beavis000 4y agoSelf publish a book
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- JoeyBananas 4y agoBy genuinely not caring about social status
- more_corn 4y agoThis is called counter-signaling.
- annyeonghada 4y agoThis only works if you're already high status otherwise you will be labeled a "loser". Already burned once on that.
- belter 4y agoGo full ChatGPT and talk authoritatively about things you have no idea about.
- starwind 4y agoLearn how to do something cool and dangerous and expensive. Race motorcycles, fly planes, climb mountains, go skydiving. People will want to talk to you
- lysergia 4y ago- Enter politics - Write a book - Enter the priesthood - Say something quotable that hasn't been said before and ensure it lives on after you die Note: These are from the top of my head and are not guaranteed to work.
- baxtr 4y agoFirst, lower your status intentionally. Quit your job, burn your house. Then, with the skills you have rise up again! You’ll end up in a better place.
- solarmist 4y agoThat is a good idea (maybe not literally), but I wonder if many people could stand the intervening period of lower status and money.