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What is your definition of middle class?

What's a middle class?

I am curious. Just what is the middle class?

what middle-class?

The middle class.

definitions of middle class are very fluid here.

My definition of middle class is those people making around the median (or middle) wage.

Yours is interesting too though!


Or a different definition of “middle class”.

Well sure. The point I contest is that the definition of middle class is “the class of the person/household with median income.”

Currently in developed countries it happens to be the case that the people with median income are middle class. However this was not always the case, ie the group referred to as middle class did not always include people with median income and so the above definition does not coincide with what middle class typically referred to.


Sorry, but isn’t that part of the definition of middle class?

You have different definitions of middle class.

I think what you're describing is generally just known as "the middle class"

The american definition of middle class is "there shows on TV that are about people like me."

Definitions of "middle class" can be logical, useful, or non-controversial. Pick one.

I wouldn't really call that middle class then, but maybe

What do you consider middle class? That term is notoriously ill-defined.

Middle class is really defined on what you can get for your money, not a raw dollar amount. Quality of life and all that.

I hear that term a lot, but what does "middle class" mean to you?

When you say you are "middle" what do you mean?


Middle class is bourgeoisie.
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