Upward mobility

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. Liberals 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:

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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!

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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:
• Brahmins—priests and scholars
• Kshatriya -- warriors and nobles
• Vaishya -- merchants and farmers
• Shudra—artisans and those of the serf class.
• Untouchables—the lowest social class

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