What's your status? - a podcast by Vox

Sean Illing talks with writer Will Storr about his new book The Status Game, and its central idea: all human beings are constantly competing for status. They discuss how certain aspects of society "supercharge" our innate drive for status, how social media has hijacked these impulses, and the risks posed by the status game's most dangerous players.Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), Interviews Writer, Vox
Guest: Will Storr (@wstorr), author and journalistReferences: 


The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It by Will Storr (Harper Collins UK; 2021)Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1755)


Selfie: How the West became self-obsessed by Will Storr (Picador; 2018)"My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger" by Elliot Rodger (2014)


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