So it's just straight up a normal middle class income. Except wage suppression and expectation-lowering propaganda has been so effective it now feels like a lot

So it's just straight up a normal middle class income. Except wage suppression and expectation-lowering propaganda has been so effective it now feels like a lot. Propaganda, I will point out, like exactly like this headline. "170k!" you are encouraged to think. "I don't even make that much, and I deserve it. This affects me negatively somehow" you are expected to believe. Good propaganda is as true as possible, ideally unimpeachably so.