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For the spouse benefit (which seems to give the higher of your MM level or your current level - e.g. 1K 1MM's spouse will get 1K for the current year, not Gold):
- I guess this seriously affects upgrade chances for lower level elites
The thing about spouses who don't travel a lot is that they don't travel a lot. If they didn't travel enough to have their own status, they're not displacing lower elites that often.