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Middle-class belief that one should always improve and that children should live better lives than parents.
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achievement ethos
Middle-class belief that one should always improve and that children should live better lives than parents.
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A life of comfort, security, and prosperity can produce selfishness because people come to believe they deserve continuous accumulation.
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"...is that the baby boomers have a religion, and it's an ethos of achievement and accumulation. The more the better. The bigger the better...."
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"...have newspapers, okay? Because the middle class wants information. Achievement, the achievement ethos is I will always strive to be better."
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"...their children live better lives. Okay? So the idea of the achievement ethos, to work hard. Okay? So you guys should understand this because..."
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"...and they refuse to share any of it because of their achievement ethos and they're so um but but then there's actually a much..."
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