John_Maxwell_IV comments on Call for discussion: Signalling and/vs. accomplishment - Less Wrong

10 Post author: NancyLebovitz 23 February 2013 04:12PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 24 February 2013 09:08:29AM 2 points [-]

If we could identify things that were high status and useless, how easy would it be to lower their status and thereby optimize society's status budget?

Comment author: Athrelon 24 February 2013 02:33:58PM *  1 point [-]

So...you, the person who is low status because of not doing the useless status-enhancing thing, are going to try to expropriate status from the high-status useless people? Let me know how that goes!