According to a quick search for the case of researchers, and the stereotype of most staff in academia across the board being underpaid, this means academic researchers would have even less incentives/perks/reward, because now they have one less beneficial status differential.
Is there some way to make human respect feel like it's not a zero sum game? The world may never know.
> Is there some way to make human respect feel like it's not a zero sum game?
Respect is non zero sum but status is definitionally a positional good. If you’re number 1 someone else isn’t. There can be uncertainty about status but ambiguity always collapses eventually. Everyone can be treated with respect but there will be a prestige or dominance hierarchy in any group of humans, subtle as it may be.
Is there some way to make human respect feel like it's not a zero sum game? The world may never know.