This.
Statusmaxxing is absolutely impossible for an average person. Intelligence (and therefore other skills that a derived from intelligence like creativity etc.) are not skills you can just acquire. Most of it is biologically determined. And even if you had the luck to be born with these skills you would need extremely hard work to polish that raw diamond. Often these people start training those skills in their childhood days. Competing against them when you discover your skills later in life is (often) impossible. And even after doing so you need extreme luck to be discovered by someone famous enough to give you a push. Even if you had all those skills and even if you improved them with all your efforts: In the end it would all come down to simple luck. If no producer finds you by accident you are lost. Talent, hard work and sheer luck - if you don't have those things on your side you will never become sucessful in such a career path. That also applies to any other kind of success.
