The M Society

The building of this site (The M Society not Them Society) was inspired by the concept of M-shape Society observed by Kenichi Ohmae, a Japanese business strategist and writer.

What is ‘M-Shape Society‘?

In a well-developed modern society, the distribution of classes is in a ‘normal distribution’ pattern, and the middle class forms the bulk of the society.

However, in the emergence of the ‘M-shape society’, the middle class in the society gradually disappeared. A very few people in this middle class may climb up the ladder and squeeze into the upper class, while the others in the middle class gradually sank to the lower classes.

These people experienced a deterioration in living standard. They may face threat of unemployment, or their average salary are dropping. Gradually, they can only live a way the lower classes live: e.g. take buses instead of driving their own car, cut their budget for meals instead of dining at better restaurants, spend less in consumer goods…

There may be still remarkable progress in economic development, the GNP may still rise, there may still be economic growth, and the national average salary may still rise. However, the wealth increase in this growth may concentrate in the pockets of the very few rich people in the society. The masses indeed cannot benefit from the growth, and their living standard is on the decline.

What was worse, the upward social ladder seems to have disappeared - opportunities and fair competition become fewer and fewer. People in the lower class can no longer climb up the ladder: they cannot earn a high-paid job or have stable employment, even if they have a high level of education. The places in the upper class were reserved by the upper class for their descendants.

This site is to observe whether the riches become richer, the poors become poorer. Is it possible for the rich to become poor, or the poor become rich?

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