Re:Researchers answer a question about the decline of the mi...
by pdelbarba on Monday May 08, 2017 @03:07PM
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Sure it's objective in the mathematical sense, but if you have 2 kids and two people working with a combined income of 112k you'd be upper class? I feel like a better way of looking at it would be average household income/average area COL per person or something, right?
Additionally, if the wealth distribution curve for the country is basically a backwards "L" with the bend at the ~99th percentile, the difference between the 60th and 80th percentiles isn't really meaningful since the "upper class" is clearly the 99th percentile.
Edit: obviously there are also social caste connotations that used to be applied here too, but I'm only interested in the economic definition.
Additionally, if the wealth distribution curve for the country is basically a backwards "L" with the bend at the ~99th percentile, the difference between the 60th and 80th percentiles isn't really meaningful since the "upper class" is clearly the 99th percentile.
Edit: obviously there are also social caste connotations that used to be applied here too, but I'm only interested in the economic definition.