egalitarian social values don't make anybody equal, but they do make it low status to display that you think other people are lower status than you. so parallel norms have to be constructed to keep the low status people in their place without appearing to make it about status
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only someone of the highest status can be President, and to be high status he can't possibly do anything low status like act too high status to have a beer with someone low status
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So what I'm getting here is that cynical status is based around denying the possibility that anyone else's actions might be done in good faith?
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I don't see how the former leads to the latter?
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it's fine for people to regard them as high status, but in order for them to be high status they can't do low status things like openly regard themselves as high status
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Doesn't one of the Scandinavian countries shame excellence? It doesn't stop someone from considering another higher status, but it stigmatizes the target of that regard.
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Each person is an expert on their own status, but everyone is incentivized to over-report, and the least trustworthy people will over-report the most. Trusting the group to assign status has its own problems, but I don't see an obvious alternate answer.
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