Moving Up Without Losing Your Way, by Jennifer Morton

RATING

N/A

N/A = good but not on the scale

1 star = perspective supplementing

2 stars = perspective influencing

3 stars = perspective altering

SHORT SUMMARY (272 words or less)

The main thesis of this book is that students from disadvantaged economic classes (aka “strivers”) have many costs when it comes to pursuing upward economic mobility. We typically think of the traditional costs — student loans, part time jobs, time investments, etc. The additional costs that the author highlights are “ethical costs.” The idea is that in pursuit of economic advancement, strivers often have to make hard decisions–leaving their families (where they are often in caretaker roles), their communities, their culture–to adapt to their new strata.

Overall, the idea is that while everyone has tradeoffs in the career and economic pursuits, strivers have additional costs that are emotional and ethical, and those costs can often hold back people from fully pursuing the options in front of them.

I thought this was certainly an interesting idea and a good book to explore. Beyond that, I did not get too much actionable information from it, which is why I gave it zero stars. It still was a worthwhile read.