Choose not to play status games and you’ll always want to escape society.
Choose your status game wisely
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#202One can sometime make quite a bit of money by running status games for profit. Here's the pitch deck for Bored Ape Yacht Club.[1] This is for investors, and they are very clear about how they are exploiting their customers. Rolex is in that business. Rolex watches cost 5x what they cost in the 1960s, adjusted for inflation. A CEO of Rolex, Andre Heiniger, "We are not in the watch business. We are in the luxury busine…
Years ago I did a small project for Harrods.[1] I have never had such an abusive and dysfunctional client, before or since. I have a suspicion that all the luxury brands are the same.
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#203The thing I do is I keep many social circles. Family groups, friends from different language groups, work groups, educational groups, interest groups, kids' friends' parents, and so on. That way there's really no hierarchy, it's like being a contractor at a business or an acquaintance at a party. People will still find you interesting but not threatening. Weirdly they also find you familiar despite you not being ther…
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#204Who is more cool? Somebody who makes it clear they're wealthy or well connected or attractive or smart or etc... Or somebody who is upbeat and friendly with no desire to display anything about themselves? There's a minority of people who go by their own compass. The things that gratify status seekers don't do it for them. That's not to say they don't have needs. They need friends, stimulation, hobbies, achievements.…
Seeking status is a low status activity. A high status activity it to seem like you don't care about what other people think about you. People I know who actually go by their own compass are seen as weird and don't have much status. People I know who have cultivated a person of someone who goes by their own compass do tend to have a lot of status.
I view the reliance upon the idea of status as a low-status activity. Low status or high status only emanate when you're playing the status game, but it's not a game that you necessarily need to play.
And if you're not playing the game, low-status or high-status doesn't matter; they're just different colors.
Nothing wrong with playing the game either.
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#205I always wonder why folks with 9-figure net worth (or high 8) keep doing any job at all. People do not get very many quality-adjusted life years -- why would you spend 8+ hours per day doing CEO work when you could spend that time with family and friends?
There have been surveys where they ask people how much money they would need to feel comfortable and the usual answer is about 50% more than they currently have.
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#206The thing I do is I keep many social circles. Family groups, friends from different language groups, work groups, educational groups, interest groups, kids' friends' parents, and so on. That way there's really no hierarchy, it's like being a contractor at a business or an acquaintance at a party. People will still find you interesting but not threatening. Weirdly they also find you familiar despite you not being ther…
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Plenty of people have a wide range of friends. It's not that often I run into someone that I think has social difficulties.
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#207Sometimes you see articles like this that insist that you have to play a status game of some kind etc etc. The hacker in me sees that as even more reason to look for examples of ways alleviate myself of such nonsense. If you read books like "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman" you run across stories of him playing with Status games and poking fun at them. Though I'm sure one could argue Feynman had status games he play…
>Don't take life so seriously and goof around a little more. Thats how you turn up interesting ideas anyway, not by playing status games.
Reading your comment, it sounds like you've got a decent amount of social status without needing to explicitly pursue it.
While that's great for you, don't forget that for others, increased status can mean:
- No longer being treated like shit by people who get away with it
- A social circle that doesn't constantly try to take advantage of you
- Security in your job, as well as greater opportunities for promotion
- Positive attention from the opposite sex
- Peer acceptance for your children
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#208I think it's interesting how different people view status, like the "Harvard Professor or Homeless guy?" quiz that used to get passed around. I grew up in one of the last WASP strongholds in the US and the more money you had, the smaller the house you lived in (up to a point). People could afford insanely expensive cars, but would buy tasteful ones instead (excepting kids). Most people wouldn't be caught dead in a Ra…
What is WASP? My search results seem to have a lot of noise, like wasps, the insects.
Re: Choose your status game wisely
#209I think it's interesting how different people view status, like the "Harvard Professor or Homeless guy?" quiz that used to get passed around. I grew up in one of the last WASP strongholds in the US and the more money you had, the smaller the house you lived in (up to a point). People could afford insanely expensive cars, but would buy tasteful ones instead (excepting kids). Most people wouldn't be caught dead in a Ra…
I don't know, I don't think they would appear low status. Your whole description screams wealth and aristocracy, just not the in your face kind. They probably wouldn't be liked, but I doubt they would appear low status elsewhere.
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#210I think it's interesting how different people view status, like the "Harvard Professor or Homeless guy?" quiz that used to get passed around. I grew up in one of the last WASP strongholds in the US and the more money you had, the smaller the house you lived in (up to a point). People could afford insanely expensive cars, but would buy tasteful ones instead (excepting kids). Most people wouldn't be caught dead in a Ra…
What is WASP? My search results seem to have a lot of noise, like wasps, the insects.