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Originally Posted by Dunyain
Fair enough, although even 1-2 inches could probably make a big difference on the margins.
It is interesting how elites are generally so self-conscious and conscientious about doing the little things on the margins to increase their own and their children's social status; and generally how oblivious everyone else is.
I'd call this good parenting. I did not get good parenting from my mom. My dad was excellent in this respect, however. And this was in spite of being from whatever the opposite of an elite background is. The big problem is that if you're a blonde haired blue eyed white woman you have default turbo-high status and don't understand that other people in society need to actually do things to obtain it. They expect that everyone gets the default favorable treatment because they themselves do, and if they are generally low IQ it's gonna be a disaster for their kids who aren't blonde/blue/thin females. Being a black male who grew up in a place without running water or electricity in a third world violence ridden country engenders a whole lot of status consciousness which is a blessing for offspring who don't have it by default.
But of course most normal people probably don't even conceive of something like status as a resource or a need at all. This is aspie male territory. I think I already posted in the Lc thread a long time ago about this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Status-Game-P.../dp/B08H7Y414K
He was on Rogan recently and you can get a feel for the book by listening to one of his dozen or so big podcast appearances.
First result on a google search:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art...rly%20earnings.
Who you look like you are will always matter more than who you actually are in this life. But as long as you know this it's not necessarily something to get upset about because you have a lot of control over your appearance.
Yesterday 60 minutes stairs fasted AM, 11k steps. Wanted to get more steps but was busy grading and busy procrastinating to avoid grading.
Last edited by GuyThatGoesToDaGym; 03-31-2024 at 08:42 PM.