Thread 216159793

Is there a middle class in your country?

I finally made it my country. However, it took a lot of hard work, and that's despite me being born with a ton of god given privilege. The vast majority of my age cohort (not my peers, we are different casts) will NOT make it.

As America slips into a Second Gilded Age with no middle class, it's very interesting to see the bifurcation between those who have a lot (not everything) and then those who have absolutely fucking nothing. This contrast is far more distinct with men than with women.

>>216159793 (OP)
Ultimate blackpill is that the death of the middle class was always an inevitability. It's ultimate deal with the devil, if you will. Capitalism lifted some people up for a short time, but it always cuts from the bottom and "the bottom" is always open to redefinition.

>>216159793 (OP)
everyone here is middle class except the few truly rich and thoose who choose to be lower class. the latter always want to tax the middle class to pay for their poor life choices. they think they tax the rich but rich people dont pay income tax middle class do.

>>216159793 (OP)
>Is there a middle class in your country?
no, most people are poor

I remember middle school, it fucking sucked
this beer is great though

Trump will fix it

>>216159793 (OP)
The middle class is disappearing. Too many people are becoming millionaires. This is literally the end of America as we know it.

>>216160471
i dont think these statistics take into account what you can afford with such income? prices has gone up more than income in usa.

>>216159793 (OP)
>>216160058
bleh!

>>216159793 (OP)
gleh

>>216159793 (OP)
Yeah but it's shrinking. Ironically I dropped out of college and am doing better than most people I know. I work with diesel-electric systems and make $30 an hour. GF dropped out of cosmetology school and is a retail manager making like $24 an hour we make a bit over $100,000 combined which is basically the new minimum to be middle class these days.

Most people I know, even with degrees get stuck in the $20 per hour rung and can't escape. Only other friends with money are a few tradie, a cop, air force fren and a forensics doctor.

>>216160471
The note says its based on household income, but doesn't mention if it adjusts for inflation
100k would be a solid upper middle income in 1971 but today that's like barely enough to raise a family.

>>216159793 (OP)
>This contrast is far more distinct with men than with women.
Why is that?
I know what you mean though it feels like the contrast is way more extreme for some reason

>>216161916
Households are defined as middle-class if their income is between two-thirds and double the national median income for their household size.
$7,500 to $20,000 in 1971
$55,000 to $166,000 today

>>216159793 (OP)
In my country, the true divide is between people who own property and those who don't. If your parents own a nice 3+ bedroom house, you basically don't have to worry about your future. However, if your parents are rentoids (like mine), things will become dark in the not-too-distant future.

The middleclass was always mostly made of "middle-man", and when the internet and globalism began killing "middle-man"s in the 90's due to chain-production optimization, widening wealth gap was inevitable