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There can be many flaws in implementation, and we probably won't find a perfect one, but academia seems like a decent example. It has a goal (research and education), and it assigns status (academic functions) to people who contribute to that goal, and the status comes with certain benefits (salary) and powers (over students) which means other people will recognize it as a status.
If you spend a lot of time hanging out with professors and learn all their buzzwords, but you will do no research nor teaching, you are not going to become a professor, i.e. you are not able to out-status them within the academia.
Another example would be meritocratic open-source projects, where people are respected according to their contributions to the project.
Or perhaps a sales department, where people are rewarded depending on their sales.
How is that different from pretty much any job? Let's take ditch-digging.
It has a goal (digging ditches), and it assigns status (becoming a foreman, then a manager) to people who contribute to that goal, and the status comes with certain benefits (salary) and powers (over workers) which means other peo... (read more)