Day 59

Hey!

So, It's late at night, and instead of going to bed, I've been thinking over a little theory of mine.

During class, and while I do my homework, I am a chronic doodler. My notes are very clean and precise, but the last few designated doodling pages are a complete mess. One of my favorite things to do while I'm trying to pay attention to a teacher is crosshatch. I really love crosshatching. For some reason, the lines mesmerize me, and like a little kid I could stare at them all day.

What does this have to do with my little theory?

Well, I started thinking that a simple crosshatch with horizontal lines, vertical lines, and diagonal lines (positive and negative) can be used to describe wealth and the climbing of the socioeconomic ladder. In other words, there are basically 4 different kinds of people in terms of wealth.

Firstly, there is Line A:

Line A is a vertical line. Line A kinds of people are those who master their own line, or field. Line A is a vertical line, so let's say if you are the point at the bottom of Line A, then you would climb the ladder until you reach the top. However, you are only climbing to the top of the socioeconomic ladder that was presented to you in the first place. For instance, a pedigreed son works his way through law school and becomes even more successful than his father. He is a Line A, because he was on that "ladder" since the beginning, and now he has climbed to the top of it, but he has not moved horizontally. Another example is if a child lives in a slum, does not receive a good education, and is surrounded by drugs and violence. He would be a Line A kind of person if he grew up to be a drug dealer. Certainly, he is more successful than the people in the slum, but he is still apart of the slum ladder, he has only climbed it. He hasn't moved horizontally. Line A kinds of people master their own particular plane of existence.

However, Line A can move both ways. The same way, a Line A person can climb to the top, and fall right back down to the bottom. It works both ways, but once again, the person doesn't move horizontally they always remain on their plane of existence.

Secondly, there is Line B:

Line B is a horizontal line. I haven't perfected my view of Line B's yet, however, Line Bs certainly do not climb or fall on the ladder. They stay exactly where they are from birth to death. People who are points on Line B are mostly idle and somewhat secure. You could take a typical middle class family as an example. The parents make decent money, the kids grow up and make decent money. The kids' follow in their parents' footsteps and raise their own kids' in the same way. The kids don't do anything that their parents didn't accomplish, but they don't ever fall lower either. It can work on any "step" of the ladder really. Another example would be if your parents are poor, and so you can't go to school, so you don't get a degree, so you make minimum wage, and when you have children, you don't have enough money to send them to school, so they also can't get a degree, and end up making minimum wage... That sad cycle goes on for on and on, and it is a perfect kind of example of a Line B.

Thirdly, there is Line C:

To understand a Line C, you have to picture this: A Line C person is on a certain step of a certain ladder, then she get's off that ladder, decides that she doesn't want to live on that plane of existence anymore, than gets on another ladder and bravely climbs all the way to the top of that one. This one is really fun for me to imagine, because it's the most inspiring Line. Basically, no matter where you are on any line, you can always become a Line C, and decide that you want to change your environment and climb to the top of a ladder that maybe the people in your original ladder don't understand because they are either Line As or Bs, and they will never leave their ladder. It's kind of like one of those rags to riches stories, except Lind Cs aren't guaranteed to climb necessarily to the very top of the ladder, but it is a positive line, so they will always be higher on their new ladder, than they would have been on their old one.

Fourthly, there is Lind D:

Line D is a bit of a tear jerker. Line D has a negative slope. So, that means that Line D's begin their time on the ladder of wealth and general success on a higher step than they land on. It's like a rich guy who gets involved in drugs and fraud and ends up poor and in jail. Basically, they are the Mr. Archibald's of society. Keep in mind that Line D is diagonal, and therefore Line Ds end up on a different ladder than the one they began on, and it's a ladder of lower standards.











Basically, the threads of wealth, status, and position in life look like this:

In order to make the best of the crosshatch effect, you have to imagine that, like on a graph, the farther left you go on the lines, the lower the economic standards/prosperity and therefore the farther right you go, the higher the prosperity.

Now, my little theory has some faults. What about the people who exist as points in the intersection between two lines? I guess that they are the conflicted people, they are the people who have to choose between two paths, they are the people who have a little of two lines in them.


 It's kind of fun to imagine that you exist as a point on a line, and that as you grow up, your point moves to accommodate your decisions, and whether those decisions have helped you climb the ladder (or not) or if they lead you towards the negative side or the positive side.

What a silly idea that I'm sure a thousand people have already graphed.

-D.F.T.B.A.-
Mina;)