>>60562496>The middle class in most of SEA earns less than 1k USD per month.Lol no.
>>60562502>the only countries where that is true is the philippines, laos and myanmarAnd even then I'd disagree, unless we say that median individual = middle class, which isn't the real definition of middle class. We just think of it that way because it was sort of the case in USA for a while.
Historically, the middle class is always smaller than we think or hope it is.
I am in a real middle class philippines development right now. Thr parking lot is full of vehicles you could afford on $1000/month income and the units themselves are perhaps $60,000 on upwards of $100-200k.
The Philippines middle class is just extremely small. They make more than $1k though