In fact, in many conversations using the word status I could instead describe the relevant insights in terms of eating.
You can define status in terms of eating? As in “status is the ability to eat what you want, when you want, and deprive others of doing so”? I’m curious to know more details.
I have previously made an offhand attempt to humor that implied challenge by reference to body language in humans (as an example of the class social animal). The response to body language signals predictably varies according to objective measures of ‘status’, such as job, age, connectedness in a social map and even the most primitive metric of popularity.
I’d like to hear more about this. It sounds very interesting. Do you have a link or more details?
You can define status in terms of eating? As in “status is the ability to eat what you want, when you want, and deprive others of doing so”? I’m curious to know more details.
No, I can’t define status in terms of eating. I can describe many situations in which the word status is used in terms of eating, where such descriptions would clearly also require other effects that status has that are less direct than access to the spoils of a hunt or gifts to a pair-bonded partner.
You can define status in terms of eating? As in “status is the ability to eat what you want, when you want, and deprive others of doing so”? I’m curious to know more details.
I’d like to hear more about this. It sounds very interesting. Do you have a link or more details?
No, I can’t define status in terms of eating. I can describe many situations in which the word status is used in terms of eating, where such descriptions would clearly also require other effects that status has that are less direct than access to the spoils of a hunt or gifts to a pair-bonded partner.