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There's an essay on social class breakdowns in the US, which used the term "Working Rich" to describe people like doctors, lawyers, engineers. I thought that wa
by lmkg 7y ago
There's an essay on social class breakdowns in the US, which used the term "Working Rich" to describe people like doctors, lawyers, engineers. I thought that was a much more useful term than "middle" vs "upper" vs "upper-middle." Many such people are in the top 10% (depending on educational debt), but the label succinctly describes their relationship with money beyond simply deciding an arbitrary dollar amount.
- dogma1138 7y agoThe Great British Class Survey has a very good definition of various classes imo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_British_Class_Survey https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_British_Class_Survey