status - Concepts

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Concepts

Conspicuous Consumption - Spending on goods and services primarily to display wealth and social status rather than for practical utility.
Status Games - Competition for social position and hierarchical standing within a group or society.
Countersignaling - Deliberately avoiding or downplaying signals to demonstrate that one doesn't need them.
Moral Outbidding - Competition within a group to demonstrate more intense moral commitment than peers, driving collective standards toward ever-stricter or more extreme positions.
Purity Loop - A self-reinforcing social cycle in which group members escalate strictness, orthodoxy, or moral intensity to earn status and affiliation, progressively redefining what counts as acceptable membership.
Money Game vs Status Game - A distinction between pursuing wealth (a positive-sum game that can benefit everyone) versus pursuing status (a zero-sum game where gains come at others' expense).