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Social Status: Down the Rabbit Hole | Melting Asphalt
Hierarchies can be found across the animal world. They are a form of social structuring characterized by a linear or almost linear dominance ranking between individuals that live close to one another. These types of organizing structures are most common in social mammals such as baboons and wolves, but are also found in chickens, bears and elephant
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Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks - a16z crypto
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This is the status that comes from the community. It is the status of respect in return for contribution, for caring, for seeing and being in sync with others. Especially others with no ability to repay you. Modern society, urban society, the society of the internet, the arts, and innovation are all built primarily on affiliation, not dominion. Thi
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... See morePrestige is our most marvelous craving. It's a bribe that induces us into being useful, benefiting the interests of the tribe. It's enabled us to master the art of co-operative living. We pursue goals, and tackle problems, as members of collaborative groups because we're programmed to care deeply about what our co-players think of us: we revel in t