>> My intuition about this as someone who grew up in America and has traveled internationally quite a bit is that nowhere else on earth are the middle classes s

>> My intuition about this as someone who grew up in America and has traveled internationally quite a bit is that nowhere else on earth are the middle classes so convinced that one day they will be "millionaires" than here. >They aren't completely wrong. 76% of Americans spend a year of their life in the top 20%, 56% in the top 10%. Top 20% is > $79,000 Top 10% is > $114,000 That's not even in the ballpark. They are completely wrong.