20 January

Humans never agree on anything. They always battle for status, and status is identity. They do it in groups, or teams as I call it, at every level of society, from school through to government and social media. All that interrupts these status games is catastrophe, like world wars. Alan Kohler notices this, this morning. Now the wars are long behind us, we’re back to the battles for status. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-20/donald-trump-dark-side-productivity-and-growth/104830730?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link