1 September

If you want to see how humans work, watch any sporting event. People don’t just go to watch the sport. They go to support their favourites. That support creates teams in the stands as well. Being a member of a team like that gives you social status, it makes you a somebody rather than a nobody. Your team then competes against other teams, for that status, and there’s competition within each team for position in their hierarchy. All human life is status games. It’s all team sports, even where you least expect it. Science is the same, as well as art, any trade (tradies all have favourite branded tools, for example), music (favourite acts), clothes, coffee and baristas, cars, etc. etc.