Is social status inherently based on violence?

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Things like:

having more money/resources
being prettier/more attractive
being more charismatic

than someone else can all feel like a way to (partially) impose your will on that person. All these factors making up our status make people inclined to do stuff for us, often subconsciously.

In other cases it can be fully conscious and take the form of a power play.

Do we perform little acts of violence on people around us constantly? Can we even compare two people without violence? What is status?

Discussion in the comments is welcome, obviously.

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@inactive1234 self resolving questions = free mana!

especially when based on # of traders and not percentage at close

no, i don’t think so. displays of competence can garner esteem from a group that is more “following this person leads to good outcomes” than “i will be hurt if i don’t follow this person”

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Dominance - yes, prestige - no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_strategies_theory

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Define violence

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@milanw I probably couldn't define it and I prefer a more situational "I know it when I see it" approach.

This question is also trying to ask what violence is. We know more or less what makes up social status. How does your idea of violence relate to that?