Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.