https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1hz038f/comment/m6lpjnw/
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1hz038f/comment/m6lpjnw/
All models are wrong, but some are useful — maybe the question should not be ‘is it a status game?’ (almost anything has downstream effects on status) but ‘is it useful to think about it as a status game?’