elevator effect

is the (controversial) idea that with the prosperity explosion, inequality is not reduced, but mitigated by increased affluence: Some have more than others, but everybody has enough.

A second general conclusion may possibly be more controversial. In the early eighties Ulrich Beck coined the metaphor of the 'social elevator effect' (Fahrstuhleffekt), by which inequality is not reduced, but mitigated by increased affluence: some have more than others, but everybody has enough. (Net) The term Beck names that influence, that the prosperity explosion, which change of the job market (expansion of the service sector, making the work flexible) had since the end of the Second World War on the society of West Germany. (net)

elevator effect, n.All

elevator effect