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That's right, high-status selfish behavior can be trumped by actually violating the boundaries of your social role.
I was referring to selfish behavior that either (1) they really have the status to get away with, e.g. if Einstein took all the scones for himself at a physics conference, or (2) might be impolite but doesn't actually overstep boundaries, e.g. "can I have one of your cigarettes?" "no."
The absence of such caveats and context from the post is what I referred to when saying that this was second order effects that should be corrections to first order effects, not the whole story. Ignoring this makes the claim seem stronger than can be justified.