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