>>76390776i said status is a weighted aspect of mate selection. there was no loop.
so let me make it simple: i enumerated how certain profiles of people tend to converge on different trait preferences (can be culturally conditioned, or a product of personality/pathology/subclinical traits, and so forth).
in regards to status, this means that the typical weight of this selection criterion is not that status or resources be "exceptional," but that they be "enough," in conjunction with other axes of mate selection such as empathy, dominance, physical fitness, cultural values, and so forth.
so what i'm telling you is that your model of mate selection doesn't match the data and it is more threshold based than whatever you're suggesting which is that everything converges on a single axis.
you're conflating mate fitness with status. saying status is everything women want is a category error and strips it of any predictive utility in a scientific sense. this is demonstrable in comparisons of populations, how fitness in one subculture might actually detract status broadly, and so forth. plus the whole threshold model i'm telling you about has been demonstrated repeatedly and in different contexts. e.g., clear the moderate bar of salary and now the decision is made based on looks and humor, not based on marginal differences in paycheck between you and the next guy