> That is still reality in a lot of places in the world. We don't want to hear it, but there is some truth to the idea that you need a middle class income to af

> That is still reality in a lot of places in the world. We don't want to hear it, but there is some truth to the idea that you need a middle class income to afford middle class morality. There are parts of the world where large numbers of people have no hope of anything resembling a middle class American lifestyle. Not only that, they likely don't even have hope of anything resembling a poor American lifestyle.