Hobbes quotes Richard Reeves, a Brookings Institution researcher, who says that today’s moneyed families and their heirs, benefit from a “glass floor,” that keeps them from experiencing downward social mobility, even if they’re talentless or incompetent. The same floor keeps talented but poorer young people from rising. This means, says Hobbes, “Rather than sending our most brilliant minds up the income ladder, America is ensuring that the wealthy, no matter their mediocrity, retain their grip on the highest rung.”
True? False? I can’t say for certain. But you must confess, if there is such a glass floor, then it would explain many recent events. And that boss you had who seemed like a privileged moron and you always wondered if he could really be that stupid?
Well, guess what, he really was.
And maybe more.
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Michael Jay Tucker is a writer and journalist who has published material on topics ranging from the Jazz Age to computers. (Among his small claims to fame is that he interviewed Steve Jobs just after that talented if complicated man got kicked out of Apple, and just before the company’s Board came begging him to come back.)
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