Status is how most people find meaning in their lives. Without the ability to keep up with your peers, life becomes meaningless. Frustrated status accounts for

Status is how most people find meaning in their lives. Without the ability to keep up with your peers, life becomes meaningless. Frustrated status accounts for far more deaths in this country than we want to admit. Even if you're sanguine enough to accept a loss in status, having your spouse leave you and your kids hate you make it that much more difficult. Even if you don't actually commit suicide, you'll stop maintaining your health and before you know it, you're in an early grave. Fixing this would mean telling Americans to stop caring about status, I don't see that happening for at least another hundred years.