@Gladwell All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated. (...) Crime was one of the few options available for advancement. The point of the crooked-ladder argument and “A Family Business” was that criminal activity, under those circumstances, was not rebellion; it wasn’t a rejection of legitimate society. It was an attempt to join in.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 05:35:28 +0000
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