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Lets say that humans have special circuits for figuring out if a person is more like the band leader or more like the band outcast. Human minds use these circuits to change their behavior towards that person. It seems plausible that those circuits can be 'gamed' , say people get into the habit of speaking badly about people who don't exist, then perhaps everyone actually existing will seem high status.
Clever- and it seems like this could plausibly make everyone feel better about themselves (though, of course they'll still feel bad when they compare themselves to even higher status people). Note though that this is like making someone popular by giving them imaginary friends-- it's not how the word is ordinarily used. But if this is what people have in mind by 'raising net status', fine, I don't see anything implausible about it.