There's a difference between survival and a middle class lifestyle. For those of us who have lived poor at some point, it's a point of privilege to have all of

There's a difference between survival and a middle class lifestyle. For those of us who have lived poor at some point, it's a point of privilege to have all of these luxuries. Even so, if you look at the lifestyle of a single person on 35k a year, it's vastly superior to that of someone in the 1980s in many aspects, with health care and real estate as major exceptions.