$250K a Year Is Not Middle Class

Re:$250K a Year Is Not Middle Class by the-dude on Monday December 28, 2015 @08:29PM (#10804599)

While this certainly might be interesting today, you glossed over the fact that middle class was earned by a single income in earlier days.

Which I think is far more interesting.

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Re:$250K a Year Is Not Middle Class by rubyfan on Monday December 28, 2015 @10:37PM (#10805043)

It'd be interesting to see when this balance tipped on a timeline.

There's a lot of factors at play here. I can imagine a time where not everyone in the middle class had an expectation of going to college. I could also imagine a US advantage on skilled labor that would have yielded far better wages which has steadily eroded under globalization. I am also imagining a time when taxes where less burdensome. Probably some other factors at play that I am overlooking as well, still I wonder when the tipping point was 1980s?

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Re:$250K a Year Is Not Middle Class by eimai134 on Monday December 28, 2015 @10:19PM (#10804983)

Great point. We have feminism in part to thank for that. Corporations are thrilled to now get two workers for the price of one.

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