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What he's saying is if there are 100 people, and you go from #50 most prestigious member to #49, you just displaced someone else in the hierarchy. It has nothi

• fragmede 2y ago
  But there aren't 100 people, there are 8.1 billion of us. If your relationships are such that the only way for me to be a winner is for you to be a loser, when we can both be winners, it's sad. If it's a closed system, like a race, then that makes sense. Only one person can finish first. But life's not a closed system like that, so I can win at the races and you can win at the slots, and we can go for a nice dinner together. Maybe a bit pollyanna, but not everything has to be a competition. My happiness doesn't come from the expense of someone else's.
• orf 2y ago
  This implies there’s a strict, singular and universal ordering for prestige. The idea you can rank prestige like that, and displace anyone in a strict manner, or that there’s some metric you can even use, is utter nonsense. There are bands, of course, but nothing more granular than that. It’s not a zero sum game unless you’re in a very unhealthy mindset.