Is Status Anxiety a Cause of Stress?

People who are poorer and maybe even people in the middle class, since they aspire to have higher social status, suffer health-wise because of it. But what about people who are doing very well? Are you also arguing that they experience some kind of harmful stress because of status anxiety? Absolutely. And so even in those people who make so much money and have so much wealth, they feel like unless they're at the top, they feel stressed about it. It's a very toxic situation.