>If the modern day poor are living an equivalent life style to the middle class from 50 years ago is that really a problem? If the middle class have largely co

>If the modern day poor are living an equivalent life style to the middle class from 50 years ago is that really a problem? If the middle class have largely collapsed into the poor, and the poor now live as the middle class did - that implies that for the formerly middle class there has been no growth in fifty years.