@patwater

this feels like underneath a lot of the current eras craziness... status illegibility The condition in which relative social rank within a group is murky, unreadable, or structurally undefined. In Ribbonfarm discourse, status illegibility functions as a double-edged phenomenon: it stabilizes groups of low-status individuals (particularly 'Losers') by preventing clear hierarchy from forming and enabling self-serving credit/blame accounting, but it also produces anxiety during social transitions when one's worth becomes undefined and unanchored.

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