The nature of social status is that very few have a lot of it. If everyone had status, well, status wouldn't be status. Since it's a luxury of so few, maybe only the top 1% of the population, you'll hear lots of responses from the 99% rationalizing their mediocre stations in life.
It does matter. Oh, and I'm talking about real status, not the manager at a local TGI Fridays.
If you don't believe me, go out with a group of IB bankers from Goldman Sachs one night and broke construction workers the next night. You tell me which you'll prefer. The reality is, however, that very few people will have the right mix of genetics and environment (luck) to ever reach the highest rungs of society. So in a way, for their own happiness, it isn't so bad they delude themselves into thinking it doesnt matter.
It does matter. Oh, and I'm talking about real status, not the manager at a local TGI Fridays.
If you don't believe me, go out with a group of IB bankers from Goldman Sachs one night and broke construction workers the next night. You tell me which you'll prefer. The reality is, however, that very few people will have the right mix of genetics and environment (luck) to ever reach the highest rungs of society. So in a way, for their own happiness, it isn't so bad they delude themselves into thinking it doesnt matter.