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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Good response. Though it was a bit wordy.

    I know what status means, but I didn’t realise what status-seeking behaviour could be referring to, since it was vague. I know you tried to reduce your response to a level that everyone could understand, but that was unnecessary. People have the internet now.

    For future reference you could try defining status in a single sentence, which allows people to look it up in a search engine or dictionary without room for confusion/vagueness.

    I myself am essentially looking for status right now by explaining this to you

    That’s not true. You’re taking one thought and extending it to try to interpret all of human society with. I’ve made the same mistake before. Of course, your original thought isn’t completely wrong, but you stretched it to almost irrelevant (but not unrelated) levels.

    So yeah, once you understand this, you actually see status-seeking behavior everywhere.

    No, I’m afraid I don’t. What you call status seeking can be called survival in some cases, enjoyment in some, and a waste of resources in some. Calling it status seeking is a misuse of the term and gross reduction of the behaviour’s quirks.

    Perhaps a better term would be power-hungry person. But maybe that’s not the intent of your thought.

    It makes me feel good to share my knowledge, which is why I do it. It feels good because demonstrating knowledge/intelligence raises my status.

    That all may fall apart when you realise your knowledge is biased too much towards a single concept. Or too narrow minded.

    Note: No insult intended, no sarcasm inserted.

    • an imperfect human