Two Personalities of the Modern Man

We are all born into different circumstances and our upbringing materially influences our perception of the importance of maintaining control over our lives - something we call empowerment and self determination. The material conditions in which a child is raised - weather in poverty, in middle class comfort or within a high level of affluence - affect the later adult differently insofar as the way in which the individual perceives their need to self determine his destiny. Of these three classes, the poor and the wealthy, particularly when in their extreme, tend to gravitate toward placing little importance, or outright dismissing of such need. On the other hand, the middle class individual tends to cherish this right and value its importance in defining his life's course.

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