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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

I don't really know how the different economic classes are defined. It seems like everyone who isn't either wealthy or homeless likes to believe that they're middle or upper-middle class. I'd argue that if you can't afford a home, you're low or lower-middle class.

This is not meant to be a judgement against people who can't afford homes. If anything, I'm just pointing out the horrible income inequality and how the "vanishing middle class" has indeed vanished, to a large extent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I don’t really know how the different economic classes are defined. It seems like everyone who isn’t either wealthy or homeless likes to believe that they’re middle or upper-middle class.

And that's by design. "Middle class" is pretty much a propaganda term. In reality there's only two classes: working class and owner class.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Don't know what you're all complaining about all the time then 🤷‍♂️.

I drive a 911, will retire at 50, and own my own home. Working class is doing just fine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it’s true.

i don’t have cancer, so maybe those who do should stop complaining.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you're not an AI, you should go back to school, because you're fucking stupid using an anecdote to dismiss data. Fucking pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Bruh, you are way off in left field spouting nonsense about an unrelated topic. You have entirely missed the point. You seemed to have latched on to my income level and entirely missed while shouting at me how pointless and stupid it is to say the middle class is a made up term.

I offer you zero points and may God have mercy on your soul.

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