>Someone who can just afford to buy a house and put 3 kids through college and save for a modest retirement seems pretty solidly “middle class” by most standard

>Someone who can just afford to buy a house and put 3 kids through college and save for a modest retirement seems pretty solidly “middle class” by most standards. You might have a different definition. idk what standards these are. Someone who can buy a house, put 3 kids through college and retire is rich. Do you live in America?? You are basically describing every suburban, white picket-fence American dream lifestyle, a lifestyle unobtainable for most people because most people aren't rich.