return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 6 months agoPoll: More than 60% of middle class say they’re ‘struggling financially’ and are not expecting things to turn around for the rest of their liveswww.thehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1565cross-posted to: usnews@lemy.lolaboringdystopia@lemmy.world
arrow-up1565external-linkPoll: More than 60% of middle class say they’re ‘struggling financially’ and are not expecting things to turn around for the rest of their liveswww.thehill.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square83fedilinkcross-posted to: usnews@lemy.lolaboringdystopia@lemmy.world
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·6 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.
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.