For the Brain, Cash Is Good, Status Is Better

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This seems intuitive if you consider that social standing is generally more important for procreation.

He notes that this new insight into how the brain processes social standing may have important public health consequences, possibly even paving the way to new stress-reduction therapies.

The prospect of the government trying to reduce public stress by making sure everyone gets laid makes me laugh.

Does it make you laugh because it's unlikely, or because it's a bad idea? Because it strikes me as a decidedly good idea. Mood disorders are a medical problem, and the source of those for many people is in not getting laid. In a system with socialized healthcare, this is government's problem. And it's not like the solution is hard to come up with, either.

This is reminiscent of Pantaleon y las visitadores. It's a military dude in Peru who has to get a squad of prostitutes together to keep the soldiers in other squads from misbehaving.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6990802.stm

'So what's more important — money or social standing?' - aren't they the same thing, at least in modern America?

No, just strongly correlated.

Not at all. Plenty of examples come to mind where they're inversely correlated. Working long and hard for cash can wreck social life.

I hope to someday live in a society where sex is 100% consequence free for both men and women.

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