Will Storr's 2021 argument — that status-seeking is the fundamental human motivation, operating through three types of games (dominance, virtue, and success), and that understanding this explains tribalism, extremism, cancel culture, and everyday social behavior.
Creates the status game framework — The Status Game synthesizes evolutionary psychology, social psychology, and historical examples to argue that all human groups are status games with rules determining who gets respect; moral outrage, political extremism, and online shaming are all explained as status moves within virtue games.
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