<story><title>What is Social Status?</title><url>https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/what-is-social-status</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>How do you explain that some people are not sensitive to social status?</text></item><item><author>HPsquared</author><text>In the brain, serotonin seems to be deeply related to social status. This is Jordan Peterson&amp;#x27;s bit about lobsters - it&amp;#x27;s so ubiquitous that even lobsters share the same mechanism.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;s41386-022-01378-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;s41386-022-01378-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pnas.org&amp;#x2F;doi&amp;#x2F;10.1073&amp;#x2F;pnas.94.11.5939&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pnas.org&amp;#x2F;doi&amp;#x2F;10.1073&amp;#x2F;pnas.94.11.5939&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koonsolo</author><text>This reminds me of a buddhist story that goes something like this: (tried to look it up but couldn&amp;#x27;t find it, chatgpt also didn&amp;#x27;t know)&lt;p&gt;There is this man and his brother is a monk. So he tells this monk &amp;quot;if you please the king, you don&amp;#x27;t have to live on rice and water anymore&amp;quot;, where the monk replies: &amp;quot;if you learn to live on rice and water, you don&amp;#x27;t need to please the king&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>What is Social Status?</title><url>https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/what-is-social-status</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>How do you explain that some people are not sensitive to social status?</text></item><item><author>HPsquared</author><text>In the brain, serotonin seems to be deeply related to social status. This is Jordan Peterson&amp;#x27;s bit about lobsters - it&amp;#x27;s so ubiquitous that even lobsters share the same mechanism.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;s41386-022-01378-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;s41386-022-01378-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pnas.org&amp;#x2F;doi&amp;#x2F;10.1073&amp;#x2F;pnas.94.11.5939&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pnas.org&amp;#x2F;doi&amp;#x2F;10.1073&amp;#x2F;pnas.94.11.5939&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graeme</author><text>That it&amp;#x27;s a false belief. One of two things happens in those cases:&lt;p&gt;1. That person is in some way sad regardless of what they profess, or&lt;p&gt;2. They have their own subgroup where they rate status according to the status rankings of the subgroup. This can include rejecting the status hierarchy of the mainstream, but this itself is a status play&lt;p&gt;With the internet this sub group can now be entirely online. But there does not exist such a thing as someone entirely insensitive to social status.&lt;p&gt;If you posit there is, can you name an example of such a person?</text></comment>