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Toby Stuart

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
783 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

I do think it will be profoundly important for the status system in ways it's very hard to anticipate now.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

But to come back to the point that you were making, and I concur 100%, which is the book, some people read it and interpret it as being negative on the status system.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

That isn't what I meant at all.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

What I meant the book to do is say like, this is a wildly interesting, complicated phenomenon that permeates.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

And we should know how we are, and we should think about it, and we should think about the ways that it affects our lives.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

And we should probably change some of our behaviors around it, though I'm not super prescriptive around that.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

And it's this complicated thing, but that's true of most everything.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

There's some upsides and some downsides.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

This is really interesting.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

So let me take it to another just interesting point about status, which is we need your life and we need people to see your life.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

I'm going to say it's different for me.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

So I was born to a reasonably upper middle class family.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

I did a stint as a juvenile delinquent for a different reason, but it wasn't because of anything going on at home.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

I don't think anyways, who knows.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

I got super lucky.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

I was loved my whole life by my parents and well-treated by them, and they provided great education, resources, all the things.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

So when I look at my life, I think I might not have been born on third, but I was born on second.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

I was super fortunate, and the worst decision you can make is to be born poor.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

You had a different life, but you got here.