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Re:Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic by dionidium on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:56PM (#11740484)
iPhones and new clothes are exactly the kinds of things that the middle classes can't really afford, but think of as normal.
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Re:Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic by superuser2 on Friday May 20, 2016 @03:15PM (#11740623)
+1. People who have not yet internalized that they are poor, sustaining to themselves and their children the lie that they are their parents' version of middle class.
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