> best nutrition, daycare, early childhood learning, classes, tuition In the past you didn't have to do any of this to be able to have a decent "middle class"

> best nutrition, daycare, early childhood learning, classes, tuition In the past you didn't have to do any of this to be able to have a decent "middle class" living, now if one doesn't do all of that then they are already behind in the "rat race". I forgot where i read it, but basically in society we've removed any "slippage". One mistake (say an arrest record) can result in making it hard to find jobs whereas in the past you would just move. The 20 points on the sat that you might have attained if you had better nutrition in your youth make the difference between breaking into the remaining sliver of the middle class.