Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. This is not just a sentimental platitude but a general law. A principle. Yin and Yang. Those at the bottom can only rise up; those at the top can only sink down. And all the while the middle-class cringe in their affluent bubbles, living long lives yet never growing up, in the pathetically vain hope that they and their progeny will remain forever in the middle.