Status is relative. Going with the dating analogy: Girls who are into IT will view Zuckerberg as higher status vs. Brad Pitt. A girl who's into acting acting

Status is relative. Going with the dating analogy: Girls who are into IT will view Zuckerberg as higher status vs. Brad Pitt. A girl who's into acting acting will view Brad Pitt as more 'high status' than Zuckerberg. I think you may have confused "modern society" with TechCrunch/other mainstream tech publications. If this was a politics community, someone would probably say that "modern society considers Biden" as someone with the highest-status role. I think we under-appreciate the role of context when we talk about status.