Social Status

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Social Status is an abstraction to model how people relate to each other, how social hierarchies are formed, and how people facilitate trade in the absence of financial accounting (as well as a variety of other stuff). I mean, everyone knows what status is, but here is where we break that down into it'sits components and really try to understand what's happening on a mechanistic level.

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External

  • Melting Asphault (by Kevin Simler) has many great posts on status
  • Elephant in the Brain by Simler and Hanson
  • Impro (book on improv covering status relations)
  • Writings by Venkatesh Rao such as Gervais Principle and something, something Psychopath

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Real or perceived relative measure of social standing, which is a function of both resource control and how one is viewed by others.

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