What a burden. What a responsibility. What purpose we all have to ourselves as well as to others. They are those at the higher end of the status continuum. Not the high end, the higher end.
Any status is high compared to the one below it.
Some more so than others. We all are at the higher end of the status spectrum in one system or another. Status systems aren't just social, occupational, and economic. They exist in terms of man-made as well as natural. They run from the systems of economic to the physical.