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> If there is an equal increase in upper class population for every loss of middle class population, that just means that our incomes as a population are increa
by irishcoffee 11y ago
> If there is an equal increase in upper class population for every loss of middle class population, that just means that our incomes as a population are increasing.
> Yes, that is a decrease in the middle class-or-better bucket
Huh? Wat? Ignoring your contradiction completely, 1.5-2 million people dropped.
2% of ~100million working people is ~2 million people. 2 million people dropped out of the middle class to the lower class. 2,000,000. Two-million individuals. Two commas. Not to mention their kids. Or their retired parent(s).
- 13thLetter 11y agoYes, and...? If you're interested in charting broad trends in a very large population, two million people may not be that relevant to your work. That's not any kind of moral judgement of those people or an argument to ignore their problems, it's just a statement of fact.
- refurb 11y agoWhy are you assuming they came from the middle class and not the upper class? Populations in each class are not static. Over that time period, folks moved from the lower class to the middle and upper.