WHEN you're not terribly smart or attractive, your social fortunes depend, in large part, on the quality of your stories.
Like the border that separates the two countries -- where the lush green landscape of the Dominican Republic gives way to the barren, deforested soil of Haiti -- the contrast in political and social fortunes is sharp.
Using data from a wide range of sources, Bankrupt Britain: An Atlas of Social Change maps out how Britain's economic and social fortunes have been affected in different geographical areas since 2007 in the wake of the banking crisis, economic crash, credit crunch and government cuts.
Whereas the former debate centers on the relationship of individual traits and social arrangements, luck egalitarians contrast fortune and choice, and generally don't include society as an actor whose causal responsibility is at issue.
As a couples therapist, the notion of marrying up vs. marrying down strikes me as impossibly antiquated -- something right out of "Downton Abbey," where suitable marriages were entirely a matter of matching people according to social class and fortune (hence the panic when Lord Grantham's youngest daughter marries their Irish chauffeur!).
As originally described in The Fortune 500 Social Currency Index, 'Social Currency' represents the value associated with a variety of subtle social touchpoints such as Follows, Favorites, Retweets and Lists that entities can 'hand out' to target individuals.
Making ingenious use of a vast revolving turntable at center stage (the inspired set is by John Napier), artfully arranged crowds and place-defining lighting (by David Hersey), the musical manages to keep in clear focus a broad cast of characters from different social strata whose fortunes and even identities change over the course of several decades.
They often go to great lengths to conceal their fortune in social circles in an attempt to pass themselves off as "normal".
Unlike many hedge fund managers though, Steyer is extremely outspoken and has ploughed a great deal of his own fortune into social and environmental causes.
Francesca Sedita, a social worker at the Fortune Society center, referred him to the homeless residence, where he must stay drug and alcohol free.
