In another time, being "lower-upper class" might actually have freed him to explore a few rungs up the social ladder.
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Many of these people scrabbled up the social ladder on their own and don't relish the idea of giving their heirs independent means.
Yet, at the same time, the failure of minorities to get far up the social ladder shows the limits of the French model.
Fear of these setbacks has also climbed up the social ladder: not just factory workers and low-paid service employees but also managers and engineers.
Someone who buys a more expensive watch or car to climb up the social ladder forces other social climbers to spend more to stay ahead.
You see unlimited opportunities here, non-stop new construction, and a steady stream of migrants from the surrounding hinterlands who are motivated to climb their way up the social ladder.
And because in China and India men higher up the social ladder find wives more easily than those lower down, the social problems of bachelorhood tend to accumulate like silt among the poorest people and (in India) the lowest castes.
Those who had been breastfed had a 58% chance of moving up the social ladder compared to 50% of those who were bottle-fed - a relative difference of 41% when the statistics were adjusted to take into account other factors which might influence the outcome.
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"If we want people to move up the economic social ladder, we have to get them into school and get them out with degrees, " he says.
It also offered a leg-up for the rural masses to climb the social ladder.
His progress up the ladder of the Klan was an attempt to climb out of the social class he had been born into.
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While a little compassion might help us climb the social ladder, once we're at the top we end up morphing into a very different kind of beast.
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