Toby Stuart

Yeah.

And so it's one of these areas where sometimes that works out, but not most of the time.

So you will have experts disagreeing with themselves on rating a wine in one sitting from the same bottle.

What is merit in this world?

And it turns out if you have super high status, so if you're Robert Parker, you get to choose.

because Robert Parker had a taste function.

It was different than the taste function that past critics had.

He liked a certain type or style of wine.

Those became the wines that were critically appraised as having the greatest merit.

Just his own personal preference.

There are ways to get anointed and sometimes it's that you catch a lucky break or you try hard.

To go back to the point, there's absolutely merit.

On average, there's a positive correlation between having high merit in some context and having high status in that context.

It's just the correlations, it's nowhere near one.

OK, so now imagine you have high status.

And I really don't want to be the guy who says, woe is me.

You know, you'll have high status.

As a general rule, go back to Sapolsky's Baboons because there it's great, right?

So you do not want to be at the bottom of the ladder.

You'd usually rather be at the top of the ladder.