Do you think you’re out of status games altogether? As I’ve opted out of most conventional status games (e.g., avoided going into academia, made no attempt to climb the corporate ladder, and stopped working a paying job as soon as my passive income allowed me to) and kind of look down on people still in those games, and also think knowledge is more important than wealth, I think my intuitions/psychology around all this is quite close to yours. But I think I’m still playing status games, just more interesting and hopefully more pro-social ones (i.e., with better externalities).
Do you think you’re out of status games altogether? As I’ve opted out of most conventional status games (e.g., avoided going into academia, made no attempt to climb the corporate ladder, and stopped working a paying job as soon as my passive income allowed me to) and kind of look down on people still in those games, and also think knowledge is more important than wealth, I think my intuitions/psychology around all this is quite close to yours. But I think I’m still playing status games, just more interesting and hopefully more pro-social ones (i.e., with better externalities).
See A Master-Slave Model of Human Preferences for an old post related to this.