Tag: status

All the articles with the tag "status".

• Capitalism Requires a Non-Capitalist Shelter

  7 Jul, 2026

  A note on why family, friendship, religion, and community can protect people from market-shaped desire.

• Status Arbitrage

  23 Dec, 2025

  Status is local. The same income means different things in different places. Until it doesn't.

• Status

  23 Dec, 2025

  Exploring why status exists, whether you can opt out, and why it persists even in modern societies where people are strangers, not tribe members.