"Winning" means achieving your goals. It doesn't mean optimizing society unless optimizing society fits into your utility function. If you value hedonism above all, then you win by experiencing pleasure. Its generally agreed here that hedonism alone is insufficient for achieving happiness. You say that resources are wasted on status games instead of making things "better". What does "better" mean? "Better" for who? Rationalism is NOT about holding onto moral obligations. It is about eliminating cognitive flaws so as to improve your ability as an agent to achieve your goals. What you are essentially arguing here is that certain values are somehow inferior to others because they do not correspond to your sense of ethics.