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the invisible ladder everyone claims they're not climbing while checking everyone else's rung.
means a hierarchy of skill, status, or intensity that lets people compare things without saying the word ranking out loud.
from from old english lifel, a builder's tool for checking horizontal surfaces; it jumped from carpentry to hierarchy once humans realized status also needed measuring.
gaming originvideo game levels made the word mean progress, not just height
drake popularized itthere are levels to this shit, 2015, became a life philosophy
used defensivelymostly said by people ranked lower, aiming upward
for instance
drake levels quote — there are levels to this shit, from 2015's back to back
video game xp bars — super mario, 1985, made levels literally countable
chess elo ratings — numeric levels since 1960 separating grandmasters from hopefuls