Word: tactlessness
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...Consequently the world at large in Germany does not associate failure or small value with a small salary. It has constantly before its eyes great and successful men who were also poor. It does not place the money-making power highest or even high among the human tactless. There has undoubtedly been a change in this respect since the war, but, nevertheless, it is in the main true that in Germany no one thinks as yet of estimating a man's worth by the pay he gets, or thinks of measuring the amount of respect...