“…For example, when limited upward mobility makes it unlikely that lower paid people can ever earn substantially greater financial rewards, they appear to find solace in more equally distributed socioemotional rewards, such as interpersonal warmth (Greenberg and Ornstein, 1983;Kanter, 1977;Martin et al, 1983). Research by Rusbult et al (1988Rusbult et al ( , 1990 has shown that allocators practice rational selective exploitation, distributing lower salaries to individuals with constrained mobility. If future research could show that lower income people find counterbalanced reward systems more just, if they willingly accept roses in lieu of more bread, this would contribute to our understanding of why, in the United States, financial inequality is so often considered just, even by those who receive relatively little (e.g., Crosby, 1982;Lane, 1962;Martin, 1986b;Stouffer et al, 1949).…”