Toby Stuart
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Yeah, yeah.
I do think it will be profoundly important for the status system in ways it's very hard to anticipate now.
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.
That isn't what I meant at all.
What I meant the book to do is say like, this is a wildly interesting, complicated phenomenon that permeates.
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.
And we should probably change some of our behaviors around it, though I'm not super prescriptive around that.
And it's this complicated thing, but that's true of most everything.
There's some upsides and some downsides.
This is really interesting.
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.
I'm going to say it's different for me.
So I was born to a reasonably upper middle class family.
I did a stint as a juvenile delinquent for a different reason, but it wasn't because of anything going on at home.
I don't think anyways, who knows.
I got super lucky.
I was loved my whole life by my parents and well-treated by them, and they provided great education, resources, all the things.
So when I look at my life, I think I might not have been born on third, but I was born on second.
I was super fortunate, and the worst decision you can make is to be born poor.
You had a different life, but you got here.