If you don't think I am being straight with you, and I am playing some unstated game, that's ok.

I think you're being as completely straight and honest as you are humanly capable of being. I think you also overestimate the degree to which you're capable of being straight and honest. What's your straightest and most honest answer to the question of what probability you assign to the possibility that your actions can be influenced by subconscious status concerns?

Which is to say: Status games are a bias. You're claiming to be above bias. I believe you believe that, but I don't believe that.