Otherwise you always have additional avenues along which to gain status since every person is making a choice about how much status they consider a person to have even if it is heavily influenced by information they get from other people about how much status they think people should have.
True. But you still seem to implicitly assume people are maximizers, ie that they will capitalize on these opportunities.
But okay, let’s grant that there will be differences. What if we ensured a minimum? Would that be enough?
Here’s one data point: I no longer feel a strong longing for status, implying that there is indeed a threshold beyond which people are mostly fine. This contradicts my assumption that people want the maximum. Maybe they just want to reach an absolute threshold of social capital.
True. But you still seem to implicitly assume people are maximizers, ie that they will capitalize on these opportunities.
But okay, let’s grant that there will be differences. What if we ensured a minimum? Would that be enough?
Here’s one data point: I no longer feel a strong longing for status, implying that there is indeed a threshold beyond which people are mostly fine. This contradicts my assumption that people want the maximum. Maybe they just want to reach an absolute threshold of social capital.