How would mankind get along if there were no status?

Humans are tribal creatures who are constantly seeking to have a place in the group with high status. If you have high status, people want to be your friend or to help you, in hopes that some of the benefits of high status will fall on them.

These days, one of the simplest ways of demonstrating our status is the accumulation of material things. For the most part, the more we have, the more power we have and the more people want to be around us. Of course, there are other strategies for gaining status such as being an outstanding artist of some kind, or by making sacrifices for others, or by being really smart or by being a good fighter, among many others.

I think status is important for organizing communities and for organizing how work gets done. There need to be leaders.

Or do there? Could humanity work without leaders? Without people with higher status than others? How would that work?