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Perhaps the author considers non-middle-class people to constitute (significantly) less than 30% of the population.
by Tycho 17y ago
Perhaps the author considers non-middle-class people to constitute (significantly) less than 30% of the population.
- philwelch 17y agoNot surprising. Most Americans consider themselves middle-class: poor people think they are lower middle class and rich people think they are upper middle class. This is why "the middle class is disappearing" is such an effective political message: most people identify with the middle class. It probably doesn't help that the American class system is vague. There's no official threshold between the classes. In some countries, the "upper class" is, by definition, descended from nobility, so even a British billionaire would still be middle class.