Moving and Shaking

If the reader has ever been in a learning environment where a class was graded on a curve, it soon becomes obvious that a handful of people set the curve to which everyone else is graded. They are, in my usage, the movers and shakers of that group.
I have found that usage to be valuable when generalized to macro socioeconomic situations. Essentially, when one examines a consensus mover and shaker, one notices, in today's innovation orgy, they are setting a learning curve in concepts and technology necessary to adoption, acculturation. And just as in school, they appear to be really smart. They would. They're setting the curve to their abilities. That is the whole trick to moving and shaking; setting a curve, learning or grading, to yourself.
This society comes up well short of Mandarin standards so it is easily possible for some fairly limited individuals to set a learning curve to themselves and be welcome to do so as it would be well within the average comfort zone. Of course, that would put society behind the adoption curve when such a person is a mover and shaker and that is not necessarily a bad thing given the onslaught of innovation and the plasticity limits of the human brain.
Moving and shaking as setting a curve to yourself, a useful concept in social analysis.
Do Well and Be Well.