More than 60 percent of middle class say they’re ‘struggling financially’: Poll
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More than 60 percent of Americans in the middle class said they are “struggling financially” and do not expect things to turn around for the rest of their lives, according to a poll released Tuesda…
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    upper middle class incomes

    The middle class died the day they had to make the “upper middle class” a thing…

    That’s the wealth distribution middle class was supposed to be. But it shrank down so much they had to make new class distinctions up.

    In pre-revolution France, the bourgeois were the middle class.

    99% in poverty.

    O.99% bourgeois

    0.01%, the aristocrats!

    That distribution wasn’t sustainable back then, it’s not sustainable now.

    As wealth concentrates at the top, there’s less for everyone else, and we’re all poor.