WORTH CONSIDERING: I can tell you from reading my sons’ books through high school and college, that a theme throughout was “aspire to just enough.  Don’t reach for the stars.” Gaslighting the Middle Class. Of course, partly is how you look at it.  The very technology makes the world interconnected and there’s going to be a painful time of equalizing compensation throughout the world. At the same time the rising ability to work on anything anywhere does represent more individual freedom.