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I don't see how a method of gaining status that begins with an unelucidated "First, gain status" is very helpful.
It's rather a lot more useful than "Be weird because it doesn't always backire".
There are some social moves that do only work once you have sufficient status to pull them off. Gaining more status through differentiation is one of those.