Storr is absolutely right that all of society is status games. What I call team sports. There’s no escaping…

Storr is absolutely right that all of society is status games. What I call team sports. There’s no escaping that, but there is shaping those sports so that they focus on more productive things. ‘Games of success’ include modern science and engineering. Still all status. 1/3 https://t.co/XNhBCZIRak

But status channelled more towards productive ends. Innovation, material well-being. Imitative rivalry where the outcome is more about social progress. This was Victorian England more broadly. It invented it. Status coupled to social progress. 2/3

Today we’re slave to elections and social media, status coupled to nothing but winning popularity contests. Linked to no material outcomes, no social progress. An economy of ‘likes’. Virtue games, not success games. 3/3