Prestige

• (DevonThink) Social Status: Down the Rabbit Hole | Melting Asphalt

• (DevonThink) Social Status II: Cults and Loyalty | Melting Asphalt

• Prestige is the currency of the social world, indicator of social status. It’s one of the two ways power is allocated and distributed.

• “Red Paperclip Theory of Prestige.” The important part of pretige is that you can trade one type of prestige for another type. Use money to get a job, use social prowess at work to get a fancier job title, etc.

• Money is industrial-strength prestige.

  • For that matter, all of Cheat Codes of Life is about congenital prestige; it’s embedded in our biology to consider these cheat codes as pretigous.