economic ladder
Income mobility path
Economic ladder is a metaphor for the hierarchy of wealth and social class in a society.
People speak of climbing the economic ladder through hard work or education, suggesting upward mobility from poverty toward prosperity.
The image implies distinct rungs—lower, middle, and upper class—that one ascends or descends: She worked two jobs to move up the economic ladder.
The phrase often appears in discussions of opportunity and inequality.
- mobilityCapacity for movement
- upward mobilityRising social or economic status
- climbingAscending by physical effort
- rungsLadder's horizontal bars
- successFavorable outcome attained
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economic laddercaste system
Hereditary class division
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