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'''Upward mobility''' refers to a person or family achieving social and financial advancement, generally achieved through hard work, [[education]], and [[thrift]].
[[File:Horatio Alger Jr.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|[[Horatio Alger|Horatio Alger Jr.]] was an American author who wrote young adult novels about poor boys and their rise to middle-class security and comfort via good works.]]
'''Upward mobility''' refers to a person or [[family]] achieving social and financial advancement, generally achieved through hard work, [[education]], and [[thrift]]. [[Liberal]]s ignore this concept on purpose, to justify [[socialist]] ideas such as [[income redistribution]], [[minimum wage]], and [[rent control]] (see [[Entitlements]]).
== Personality changes and its effects on income ==
''See also:'' [[Personality changes and its effect on income]] and [[Neuroplasticity and the ability of individuals to change their personality]] and [[Neuroticism]] and [[Extraversion]] and [[Agreeableness]] and [[Conscientiousness]] and [[Openness]]
Ben C. Fletcher D.Phil., Oxon writes:
{{Cquote|In their paper Boyce and colleagues went on to put a monetary value on changes in each of the [[Big Five personality traits]]. Their results showed that every standard unit increase in [[personality]] change was equivalent to an increase of between $92,000 and $314,000 in annual household income (US dollars). To put this another way, people needed an increase of between $91,000 and $309,00 in annual income to achieve the same increase in life satisfaction produced by a unit change in personality.
Change in the different personality traits were associated with different monetary values, with change in [[neuroticism]] being worth $314k, [[extraversion]] $225k, [[agreeableness]] $149k, [[conscientiousness]] was worth $91k and [[openness]] to experience $62k. If we bear in mind that the average annual household income was around $88,000/year it seems to pay really well to Flex!<ref>[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/do-something-different/201211/the-dollar-value-your-personality The Dollar Value of Your Personality]: Changing your personality may reap financial rewards, by Ben C. Fletcher D.Phil., Oxon</ref>}}
== Quotes from Lenin ==
* “The way to crush the [[middle class]] is to grind them between the millstones of [[taxation]] and [[inflation]].” -- [[Lenin]]
==See also==
* [[Social class]] and [[Economic class]]
* [[Upper class]]
* [[Aristocracy]] or [[Nobility]]
* [[Bourgeoisie]] - some say [[White collar]]
* [[Working class]] - or laboring class - some say [[Blue collar]]
* [[Working class values]] - [[American values]] - [[Real America]] of [[Main Street]]
* [[Proletariat]] and [[Nomenklatura]] of the [[Communist]] "[[Classless society]]" [[Police state]]
* The [[poor]] - [[peasant]] or [[serf]] class or [[shudra]] and [[untouchables]] [[caste]]
* [[Welfare state]] - [[Nanny State]] and [[Class warfare]]: [[Income redistribution]], [[minimum wage]], and [[rent control]] (see [[Entitlements]])
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* [[Caste system]]:
* [[Brahmin]]s—priests and scholars
* [[Kshatriya]] -- [[warrior]]s and [[noble]]s
* [[Vaishya]] -- [[merchant]]s and [[farmer]]s
* [[Shudra]]—artisans and those of the [[serf]] class.
* [[Untouchables]]—the lowest [[social class]]
==References==
{{reflist|2}}
==External links==
* http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/the-real-meaning-of-downward-class-migration
* http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/do-not-make-fun-of-those-that-have-fallen-out-of-the-middle-class-you-could-be-next
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