Modern society behaves strangely because humans systematically misperceive their social status. Evolution wired us to infer relative status from absolute wealth, which worked fine for millennia—but breaks once everyone gets richer.
The “modern mindset” isn’t primarily about technology, institutions, or values. It’s a status hallucination caused by rising wealth interacting with ancient evolutionary wiring.
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Robin Hanson:
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/our-big-wealth-status-mistake
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