> middle-class That's your explanation. The modern professional "middle class" was once called the petit bougeuosie and characterizes itself by trying to repl

> middle-class That's your explanation. The modern professional "middle class" was once called the petit bougeuosie and characterizes itself by trying to replicate aristocratic aesthetics and lifestyles with earned wages, which is mostly a lost cause and just creates a endless treadmill of labor and consumption. Good on you for being so thoroughly free of the compulsion that they're an alien bafflement to you!