🧩 Philosophy 7h ago · SpectrumDT

What does status signalling do? When successful, what does it achieve?

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I was reading this old post by Scott Alexander: Right is the New Left. In it, Scott talks about status signalling and the urge to be "cool" and be seen as such. Reading the article, I realized that much of the experience that Scott describes is alien to me. I understand on a theoretical level that status-seeking is a big thing. But I have only a hazy sense of it in practice.Now, I am highly introverted, so I do not interact with people that much. I also have Asperger, so even when I do interact

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