Friendship and Status:

Mark Manson:

"Unconditional relationships are the only real relationships. They cannot be shaken by the ups and downs of life. They are not altered by superficial benefits and failures. ... The relationship is not subjected to the coolness economy where I drop you the second you start hurting my chances to impress others."

"People with conditional relationships never learned to see the people around them in terms of anything other than the benefits they provide."

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Robert Wright:

"one might suspect that, from natural selection's point of view, status assistance is the main purpose of friendship."

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Freundschaften bzw. 'Allianzen', die sich in schwereren Zeiten sogleich auflösen versus Freundschaften bzw. 'Allianzen', die schwerere Zeiten überstehen;