There may be some groups for which this is true, but it hasn’t been my experience in any of the US or UK work or social subcultures I’ve been part of.
Sure, many different social environments use different measures for status. In the post I talked about how people rank themselves based on wealth. Here, I mentioned how some people use school and jobs.
My main point was that we already have status rankings. It’s true that we don’t have a total order, global status ranking. But locally speaking, I don’t see what’s wrong with introducing a new metric for ranking status. I’m reminded of something I saw recently as a response to social anarchists who want to abolish hierarchies: people will just create new hierarchies along different axes in response to the revolution. We might as well just ask which hierarchies are best to have.
Sure, many different social environments use different measures for status. In the post I talked about how people rank themselves based on wealth. Here, I mentioned how some people use school and jobs.
My main point was that we already have status rankings. It’s true that we don’t have a total order, global status ranking. But locally speaking, I don’t see what’s wrong with introducing a new metric for ranking status. I’m reminded of something I saw recently as a response to social anarchists who want to abolish hierarchies: people will just create new hierarchies along different axes in response to the revolution. We might as well just ask which hierarchies are best to have.