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Dipping into a thread I'm not really following is always risky but... I don't get it. You all believe, I imagine, that we can eventually change people to not be racist or sexist. Why would desire for prestige be so much more immutable than that?
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I'm not sure we know much about whether early hunter-gatherer communities had something like prestige as we're discussing it here. But I think we're drifting off topic. I agree entirely that prestige has negative aspects and we should work to mitigate the prestige-hyping.
Yup, to clarify, when I used social hierarchy twice, it referred to two different phenomena. Social organisation in bonobo society is without class (in the classical sense), but there exists a flexible hierarchy to allow for decisions to be made and resources to be distributed.
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What about macaque society?
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I don't think that prestige has to equal hierarchy either. It is possible for individuals to evaluate one another according to "metadata" without forming an organization based on that principle.
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