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Status Is Measured By Any Available Token

Status is not chiefly about money; humans can use anything to measure it, like Monopoly tokens unique to each game, so even people in the bottom 1% of local wealth can look down on the wealthy by using different status criteria (e.g., taste, authenticity).

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Speaker

Will Storr

Evidence Quote

every game's got its different way of a different thing of standing for status and all this connects to the concept of identity

Source

294 - Status GamesMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:55:49 AM

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