Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

On Downward Mobility

It Is Not a Moral Failure

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Richard L. Johnson
Dec 23, 2025
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“Every increase of knowledge is good for the happiness of mankind only so far as it is accompanied by an increase of wisdom.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Downward mobility is the quiet scandal of the millennial generation. It does not announce itself with breadlines or mass unemployment. It arrives instead through comparison, through the realization that one’s…

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