I think different people are just using status to mean different things. Some people think it obviously means “the literal pecking order”, and others mean something more like “how much respect people have.” Something something prestige vs dominance hierarchies?
Dominance is more zero sum, and plausibly has to be 100% although I haven’t thought it through in full.
I think any take of what people mean by “status” has to include both prestige and dominance, respect and pecking order. Even a dominance hierarchy, communities are founded on the middle being illegible, which allows for non-zero-sum dynamics.
This is why I think it’s about 50⁄50, but of course if you think of only literal pecking order and only the bits that are legible, I could see that bit being 0 sum. IE, there’s usually only one leader.
I think different people are just using status to mean different things. Some people think it obviously means “the literal pecking order”, and others mean something more like “how much respect people have.” Something something prestige vs dominance hierarchies?
Dominance is more zero sum, and plausibly has to be 100% although I haven’t thought it through in full.
I think any take of what people mean by “status” has to include both prestige and dominance, respect and pecking order. Even a dominance hierarchy, communities are founded on the middle being illegible, which allows for non-zero-sum dynamics.
This is why I think it’s about 50⁄50, but of course if you think of only literal pecking order and only the bits that are legible, I could see that bit being 0 sum. IE, there’s usually only one leader.