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Lumifer comments on Virtue, group and individual prestige - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 19 February 2015 08:07:04PM 3 points [-]

status is zero sum

Is it? I think that status is relative (in the sense that you need to specify the baseline relative to what something is high-status or low-status), but I don't see why does it have to be zero-sum. And don't forget that status is observer-dependent.