the.com/status anxiety
the fear that you are one bad quarter away from becoming invisible.
means a chronic worry that you are not valued enough by the world, measured against people who seem to be winning at life.
from popularized by philosopher alain de botton's 2004 book of the same name, though the feeling is as old as hierarchy itself — even hunter-gatherers gossiped about who got the best cut of meat.
paradoxworsens as societies get richer and more equal
social mediaturns every acquaintance into a scoreboard
philosophical fixstoics suggested caring what nobody else notices