#294 — Status Games

Sam Harris speaks with Will Storr about the role that status
plays in human life and culture. They talk about the taboo around
caring about status, egalitarianism, the perpetual insecurity of
status, how we play multiple status games simultaneously,
identity, social connection, dominance, virtue, success, status
as an evolved mechanism, gossip, status and health, the
consequences of humiliation, the role of social media, status and
politics, conspiracy thinking, moral panics, status and
philanthropy, and other topics.


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