We should encourage people to purchase status when that purchase involves doing things we want or giving money to causes we like. Unless you prefer traditional schemes for status assignment like height, handsomeness, ability to throw a ball, and mass murder.
See my comment on the “In Praise of Tribes that Pretend to Try” thread
If donating to purchase status is accepted and encouraged, it risks to become the main motive behind donations. This in turn creates perverse incentives for the recipient of such donations.
It sounds to me like somebody is purchasing utilons, using themselves as an example to get other people to also purchase utilons, and incidentally deriving a small amount of well deserved status from the process.
Sounds like somebody is trying to purchase status...
We should encourage people to purchase status when that purchase involves doing things we want or giving money to causes we like. Unless you prefer traditional schemes for status assignment like height, handsomeness, ability to throw a ball, and mass murder.
See my comment on the “In Praise of Tribes that Pretend to Try” thread
If donating to purchase status is accepted and encouraged, it risks to become the main motive behind donations. This in turn creates perverse incentives for the recipient of such donations.
I think it’s already the main psychological motivation behind most donations. I think it’s better to harness that than not to.
It sounds to me like somebody is purchasing utilons, using themselves as an example to get other people to also purchase utilons, and incidentally deriving a small amount of well deserved status from the process.
This isn’t the most parsimonious explanation for that behaviour.