Simply taking a statistical look ignores what it was for centuries before. Middle class is more than just income, it’s what that income means for your lifestyle and ability and it has been eroded as you say and will need to be taken back, but people fooling themselves into thinking they are just because of their income are in a bracket.
Oh you earn the middle income? Too bad it’s 90% of your rent but don’t worry you’re still middle class! Nothing to be worried about here!
You’re right. Middle class to me means owning a home or at least paying well on a mortgage. One car per person. Vacation money. Fun money. Paycheck to paycheck will never be middle class to me just because it’s the statistical median. This is what people mean when they say the middle class is disappearing. The majority of Americans are working class, poor, or destitute. There’s a fraction that are middle class and up.
In this stupid article the author says she was middle class but her parents often couldn’t afford pizza. That is not middle class. Am I fucking crazy here?
Oh you earn the middle income? Too bad it’s 90% of your rent but don’t worry you’re still middle class! Nothing to be worried about here!
I’m not saying that’s fine, I’ve literally said multiple times it’s not, and that looking at like you are downplays the problem.
I’m sorry I couldn’t find a better way to explain it.
