Actually, there's a pretty easy fix for the status problem, because we actually do have independently-valuable feelings that the ability to boss people around correspond to -- feelings like respectability, importance, and pride being among the main ones.

(Often, however, people who are outwardly concerned with their position are actually motivated by perceived threats to safety or affiliation instead -- believing that they are unworthy or unlovable unless they're important enough, or that you're only safe if you're in charge, etc.)

Anyway, your analysis here (as with many others on LW) conflates feelings of status with some sort of actual position in some kind of dominance hierarchy. But this is a classification error. There are people who feel quite respectable, important, and proud, without needing to outwardly be "superior" in some fashion. One's estimate of one's respectability, prideworthiness, or importance in the scheme of things is not intrinsically linked to any value scheme other than one's own.

Given that the idea of CEV is to get to what the more-grown, wiser version of "you" would choose for your value scheme, it's pretty much a given that unsupportable schemes would fall by the wayside.

Truth is, if you're worried about your place in the dominance hierarchy (by which I mean you have feelings about it, not that you're merely curious or concerned with it for tactical or strategic reasons), that's prima facie evidence of something that needs immediate fixing, and without waiting for an AI to modify your brain or convince you of something. Identify and eliminate the irrational perceived threat from your belief system.