A more fundamental criticism is that "status" itself is a subjective, cultural and temporally unstable concept so I don't see how humanity can collectively "ove

A more fundamental criticism is that "status" itself is a subjective, cultural and temporally unstable concept so I don't see how humanity can collectively "overestimate" our status simply because it doesn't accord with a particular economic measure of it. (It may be related to the old observation that the American poor see themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires", but it's a massively overstated, stretchy version of that idea) There are plenty of reasons to see our "status" as closer to peers of Jeff Bezos or the Duke of Westminster than serfs deserving only to serve them (not least Jeff and the Duke probably seeing it that way too!) and I'm not sure the size of the economic gap corrects that perception, which is based mostly on other measures of self worth