how important is status?

Status is very important for opportunities such as having good grades will get you into honors class, which in turn will get you higher GPA if chosen to work hard. Statuses are also very important for how people judge you, if u have a low status chances are that people will not want to work with you or talk to you, thus losing more opportunities. Status, like every other thing, are not really important for happiness, everybody remains sad and new concerns emerges whichever status anyone is currently in. no one will ever be truly 100% happy no matter what status they are currently in, to do so is to reach enlightened which seldom people have actually achieved. So in conclusion, status is very important for power hungry and ambitious person, but not really in terms of making people very happy, because greed will cause us to want to move to yet another higher status.