[harimau777]

Sure, but happiness and fulfillment isn't status. Not because there's anything wrong with them but because that's not what "status" means.

[whimsicalism]

feeling better because your job fits better in your moral framework that you get from society is a status-mediated effect and i feel you can usually find social scaffolding under things that are articulated as purely intrinsic.

[lux-lux-lux]

If words don’t mean what they mean, absolutely