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Victim signaling is strongly correlated with Dark Triad personality traits.
Low verbal intelligence is a strong predictor of politically correct authoritarianism.
People with high wealth and status often desire more wealth and power.

Fertility rates tend to decrease in successful market economies with rising GDP per capita.
Culture plays a significant role in determining fertility decisions, influenced by economic forces.
In modern market economies, focusing on work and career success often leads to lower fertility rates.

Understanding and cultivating prestige is crucial for career advancement.
Prestige is granted by association and is easier to measure than competence.
Climbing the ladder of prestige involves strategically associating with increasingly prestigious institutions.

Higher status individuals tend to live longer compared to lower status individuals within the same organization.
Lower social status is associated with stress-related habits that can lead to health issues and a weakened immune system.
The relationship between status, stress, and mortality is complex and debatable, with other variables like lifestyle choices and relationships also playing a role.

The concept of the Prisoner's Dilemma can be observed in various social and economic situations where individual incentives may lead to suboptimal outcomes for everyone involved.
Unaligned incentives, where individual actions aimed at maximizing personal benefit can result in inefficiency for the group as a whole, are prevalent in scenarios like the tragedy of the commons and pollution.
In addressing issues related to unaligned incentives, analogical solutions from economic situations, such as taxes or permits, can be applied to social contexts, like imposing luxury taxes or restricting financial aid based on college major signaling.

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