:-/ I make $300k / yr. I live in a 10 x 18 room, in an apartment with 3 room mates that has an acceptable kitchen and a cramped living room. I save > 50% of m

:-/ I make $300k / yr. I live in a 10 x 18 room, in an apartment with 3 room mates that has an acceptable kitchen and a cramped living room. I save > 50% of my income, which is nice. But I also spend ~ 80k / yr on medical expenses. I guess I'm upper class if "hoping to retire to a remote part of the world at around 35, and live off ~20k / yr til I die" is a reasonable hope. But also that's just ... ill. I hate the "upper / lower / middle class" model because I don't think it really is a meaningful way of slicing society anymore? It's a very post-WW2 idea of how our society is organized and what's desirable. I'd tend to start slicing along a set of lines like: -- urban / rural -- race -- age -- degree of community support / culture -- type of labor (knowledge, service, manual, ...) I'm working on building long term community structures (one of my low-key goals is to buy and convert a church into a community space). Because the "I'm X class!!!" is dumb; it treats people as totally not dependent on their community. Unless you're willing to pay for community builders to do their work, you're not going to have any real community. (btw, this is why I can't stand people skeptical of affordable housing and the like: why do you think it's pleasant to live in neighborhoods with a robust variety of people? because often people that aren't working all the time can do things like maintain a community garden. Which is only possible if they can live in your community.)