It may be sensible, after all, to describe this sort of status as “non-zero-sum”, if such contexts satisfy these criteria:
Status within some context subjectively matters as much as status outside the context would, in the absence of the context (or in lack of participation in it)
There is no limit on the number of such independent contexts that may be created
It may be sensible, after all, to describe this sort of status as “non-zero-sum”, if such contexts satisfy these criteria:
Status within some context subjectively matters as much as status outside the context would, in the absence of the context (or in lack of participation in it)
There is no limit on the number of such independent contexts that may be created
What I am describing here is discussed in detail in another gwern classic: “The Melancholy of Subculture Society”.