A lot of people complain about a lot of people falsely claiming they're middle class, either No you're not middle class you're rich or No you're not middle class you're actually barely betting by.
Being really literal middle class would apply to the middle third. But does it actually make sense to say, think that the middle class actually is the largest American economic class, much larger than the others?
That the bottom 20-25% are poor, the next 50-60% middle class and the top 20-25% rich?
Or especially that the bottom 20% are poor, the next 20% lower middle class, the next 20% middle class/solid middle class/middle middle class, the next 20% upper middle class and the next 20% rich?
Alternately you could make claim that .only very very few people are rich but that seems disingenuous on other extreme, to claim that literally everyone except the few extremes are middle, if you do make more than 80 let alone 85%, 90% of people then you are pretty rich and should be considered so, should admit so, even if some/a few are a lot richer than you.
And if (even without that I think disingenuous extreme) the middle class is so large and varied, 50-60% of the population, is it not really surprising, is it kind of inevitable, that there are a lot of politicians trying to appeal to them but pretty little actual common interests or solidarity within them?
Being really literal middle class would apply to the middle third. But does it actually make sense to say, think that the middle class actually is the largest American economic class, much larger than the others?
That the bottom 20-25% are poor, the next 50-60% middle class and the top 20-25% rich?
Or especially that the bottom 20% are poor, the next 20% lower middle class, the next 20% middle class/solid middle class/middle middle class, the next 20% upper middle class and the next 20% rich?
Alternately you could make claim that .only very very few people are rich but that seems disingenuous on other extreme, to claim that literally everyone except the few extremes are middle, if you do make more than 80 let alone 85%, 90% of people then you are pretty rich and should be considered so, should admit so, even if some/a few are a lot richer than you.
And if (even without that I think disingenuous extreme) the middle class is so large and varied, 50-60% of the population, is it not really surprising, is it kind of inevitable, that there are a lot of politicians trying to appeal to them but pretty little actual common interests or solidarity within them?
