[Existenceblinks]

Yes, I'm about to say it's not a trap. It's a jail! Trying to avoid status makes your life quality worse, more restrict ways of doing things. It's narrower in all directions. It is a jail.

[Aperocky]

I've actually read the article and it read to me that the author is suggesting against obsessing over status, and not avoiding it.

And it seems to me there's a lot of middle ground between those two things.