This is lamentably foolish, utterly absurd and altogether reprehensible.

Let us resolutely face the facts, accept them, and then reshape our lives, bravely and valiantly, to suit the new conditions.
For instance a friend of mine spent twenty years in the employ of a great corporation.

As a reward of faithful service he was finally put in a responsible position as the head of a department.

A few months ago he was sent East on a special mission connected with his work.
Just before his return the corporation elected a new president, who "shook up" the whole concern, changed around several officials, dismissed others, and in the case of my friend, supplanted him by a new man imported from the East, offering him a subordinate position, but, at the same salary he had before been receiving.
How should this man have treated this settled fixed fact in his life?
He had two great broad pathways open to him.

In one he would deliberately recognize and accept the changed condition, acquiese in it and live accordingly.