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Who Wants to Play the Status Game? | The Point Magazine

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We seem to be less interested in either of these games than in exploring the connection between them—or rather, the philosophical question to which that connection points.

This is the twelfth in a series of columns on public philosophy by Agnes Callard; read more here. When you first meet someone, you “feel each other out” to see where your lives might connect—where are you from, what do you do, what music/art/books do you like, etc. You are looking for common ground on the basis of which your conversation might proceed. Call this the Basic Game; I’d like to contrast it with two more advanced games that can be played in its stead, or alongside it. In the Importance Game, participants jockey for position. This usually works by way of casual references to wealth,

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