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Re:What’s Behind the Ballooning Upper Middle Class? Education by henrikschroder on Monday July 18, 2016 @12:49AM (#12113263)
> You can't make DOUBLE the amount of money of the median family and then claim to be "middle class". It just doesn't work that way.

If that family isn't middle class, what are they then?

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Re:What’s Behind the Ballooning Upper Middle Class? Education by dragontamer on Monday July 18, 2016 @02:01AM (#12113435)
Upper middle class, if anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_middle_class

$150k is a lower-estimate for this family, they probably beat the $165k to qualify for top 5% household incomes in the country.

High amount of autonomy in their work, advanced degrees (beyond college: masters degree plus continuing education), significantly higher wages than everyone else... yeah, upper-middle class.

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Re:What’s Behind the Ballooning Upper Middle Class? Education by henrikschroder on Monday July 18, 2016 @11:17AM (#12115554)
Oh, I agree.

Ok, I think we keep talking past each other, because to me, upper middle class is just a subset of middle class. I don't think it's wrong for people who belong to it to describe themselves as middle class, because if you're in the upper middle class, you have a lot more in common with the rest of the middle class, than you have with the upper class.

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