Social Status: Down the Rabbit Hole
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- The point is, we want to be friends, allies, and teammates with people who do good things for their friends, allies, and teammates.
- As always, Pinker offers a crisp definition. Prestige status, he says, is "the public knowledge that you possess assets that would allow you to help others if you wished to." In other words, prestige reflects your value as a teammate, whether actual or potential.