Moving Up without Losing Your Way The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility

In her book, Moving Up Without Losing Your Way, she explores the ethical costs that people often confront on the path to upward mobility.

Jennifer Morton is a professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She's the author of Moving Up Without Losing Your Way.

In her book, Moving Up Without Losing Your Way, she explores the ethical costs that arise at the intersection of communities that face concentrated social disadvantage and the strivers from those communities who are on the path to upward mobility.

Jennifer Morton is a philosopher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She's the author of Moving Up Without Losing Your Way.

Mobility exists both as a story about climate in the U.S., but also a broader story about how how the world is facing climate change, how a kind of corporate structure that is international is trying to avoid facing up to climate change.

And I think that like it is a book that grapples with personal responsibility to an enormous problem that we feel like the way in which people rationalize their connection to a broken system.

And I think that that's something that is like the left grapples with, I think more than the right does. But I think you see it in everything from fights about banning straws at Starbucks all the way up to, you know, what is all the way up to like what protests are happening like on college campuses.

Yeah, that's such a great point.

I think when people hear things like recently, like French people did a poll where they all agreed that people should have like four flights in their life. That doesn't like maybe make a lot of people think like, yes, I want to join onto this movement.

Mobility exists both as a story about climate in the U.S., but also a broader story about how how the world is facing climate change, how a kind of corporate structure that is international is trying to avoid facing up to climate change.

And I think that like it is a book that grapples with personal responsibility to an enormous problem that we feel like the way in which people rationalize their connection to a broken system.

I think that that's something that is like the left grapples with, I think more than the right does. But I think you see it in everything from fights about banning straws at Starbucks all the way up to, you know, what is all the way up to like what protests are happening like on college campuses.

Mobility is an audio book. You can ear-read it.

You should get it as an audio book. Audio books are where you do your best ear-reading. Yes. But you mis-ear-read what I was saying. Yes.