The main thing that comes to mind is that status is not a one-dimensional variable. Somebody may have high status among LW posters, low status among goths, and moderate status among window-cleaners. If you could arbitrarily construct social groups and assign people to them, as well as deciding everyone's status in each group, you could construct such a set of social groups that every human belonged to at least one group where he was high-status.

Of course, in practice you can't do that, especially since people typically prefer hanging out in the social groups where they're high-status and avoid the groups where they're low-status.