I think assumptions about status being relatively lead directly to harmful interactions—beliefs that you must put others down in order to raise yourself up, or that you must choose between high status or other forms of morality.
This is how you cooperate, not (only) through denial. Defectors lose. Even in relative terms.
even if it did turn out that the most effective ways to gain status were relative.
That isn’t what “status is relative” is about at all.
This is how you cooperate, not (only) through denial. Defectors lose. Even in relative terms.
That isn’t what “status is relative” is about at all.