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Originally Posted by dessin d'enfant
You are destroying your own case. If being middle class or living the american dream is rare, income inequality and the vanishing middle class are very real problems that we should talk about. Just changing the definitions only serves to sweep the issue under the rug.
Income inequality isn't based on this vague subjective lifestyle ****. It's based on real distribution percentages. We can objectively quantify that the middle class is poorer than ever. There is a certain cost of living associated with purchasing food and shelter and other things that have *roughly* constant costs where we can associate percentages of income spent on simply keeping ourselves alive, and another percentage spent on things for our own enjoyment. We can compare where the median person was at at certain historical points compared to the current time. Actual stats.
If 60% of the middle class is below the poverty line, my question is what do we define the poverty line as? And yes, if we can recognize that the middle class is at a certain level of horrific poorness, then that too says just as much as "well only 1 in 25 people can afford this thing that I happen to describe as middle class"