> Not sure why you've decided to turn this into such a weird personal attack against the character of someone you've never met!
> Pretty sure you're just trolling for effect so I'll just flag you and leave you to it.
It isn't a personal attack, it's just the truth. The fact that you think that social status is something you can conduct "experiments" against by presenting as one vocation or another, and not something that is the gradual accumulation of a lifetime of personal experiences, indicates that you don't really understand how social interactions work and so you are trying to simulate that using a rationalist, scientific method. But, this is a flawed approach, because it doesn't obviate but rather magnifies the observer bias -- you.
The problem for people like you is that you believe that your struggles with social status are generic (vocation based) rather than individualized (you). But the more likely case is that you are in a vocation that tends to attract people who have difficulties with social status. This is the same line of reasoning that people who self identify as "involuntarily celibate" take. It's a misattribution of cause and effect. You overindex on surface level factors (such as vocation) rather than on deeper factors (personality, charisma). Most importantly, there's a "schroedingers cat" type effect where your belief that your vocation negatively impacts your social status becomes a self fulfilling prophecy -- indeed, people will be reluctant to want to associate with /anyone/ who thinks that they are treated poorly on account of their vocation, because these kinds of people have a victomhood mentality that almost ensures they will project personal issues onto purported external factors!
You can go ahead and flag me if you want, but I think the idea you are espousing is really seductive and dangerous, and more common than I would like. Worst of all, it can seem accurate because it's a self fulfilling prophecy, as I indicated above. And that's why I feel the need to speak out against it -- I don't want other in technology to fall further into that trap.
If you feel you are lower status because of your vocation in technology, there are enough counterexamples available of it being vocation based that you ought to be able to reconsider whether that is the case. If not, I think you have some personal problems you need to work on.