I thought you were one of the people who objected to over-reliance on status-based explanations.

I never said that status explanations are worthless. I just think they are wildly overused in this community.

First, some status explanations assume that hypocrisy is all, or most of human social interaction. That seems empirically false to me.

More importantly, status explanations seem to assume that predicting human social dynamics can be done with a single variable. It was false when the Marxists did it with economic resources, and it is false with status.

Plus, I have the impression you think status is useful analysis. Since I can make my point from a perspective you find insightful, why not shorten the inferential distance?