Earning Ceiling
The income level your self-concept and standards will defend, regardless of skill.
Skill sets your possible income; identity sets your probable one. When earnings rise past the ceiling, spending, generosity or self-sabotage usually restores the old number until the ceiling itself is raised.
Also called: income ceiling · income plateau
Essays that use this idea
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