"The quality of life provided by middle class America is the life of the 1%" It's been said many times before about similar statements, but this is not true or

"The quality of life provided by middle class America is the life of the 1%" It's been said many times before about similar statements, but this is not true or mathematically possible. I believe it's off by about an order of magnitude. Middle class in the US is something like $45,200 to $135,600 in household income, which is roughly half the population. Half the population is about 2% of the world population. And every American is not wealthier than everyone outside the US. If you google something like "global income percentile" you will find a considerable amount of BS claims - the first one I found was on Investopedia. For fun or ideology or whatever, the meme that middle class Americans are in the top 1% is something that people will just go on the internet and lie about. I didn't spend enough time looking to find really satisfactory sources, but in trying to find something relatively unbiased I ended up with something that suggested the US middle class might very roughly be around the top 10% globally. Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2015/07/08/a-global-middle-class-is-more-promise-than-reality/ https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2015/07/08/a-global-middl... (Note that in the terms of the linked article, it seems like the global middle class is a tier below the US middle class, so if about 85% of the world is "poor" or "middle class", then the remainder or 10-15% equates to the US "middle")