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Why do we bankrupt our peace to win the applause of people we don’t even like?
Human beings in the modern era pride themselves on sovereign individuality. We believe we choose our careers, our cars, our clothes and our opinions through independent reflection. We tell ourselves we bought the luxury watch for its craftsmanship, pursued the prestigious title out of intellectual ambition and posted the update to share our lives with friends.

This is the central illusion of modern life.

In STATUS: Currency of Envy, author B³ delivers an unsparing, evidence-driven autopsy of humanity’s oldest social guidance system. Across ten rigorous chapters, this volume reveals that our obsession with standing is not vanity, superficial ego or a personal character flaw. It is our oldest biological survival drive, forged across two million years on the Pleistocene savannah where social exclusion was an absolute death sentence.