Rich countries tend to have a bigger middle-class, except the USA

Re:Rich countries tend to have a bigger middle-class, except... by ixtli on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @04:44PM (#19732643)

So the marxist line is that you dont feel upper class because you're not! I mean by some older definitions you're not even really middle class. The "orthodox" explanation of this is that if you own land you're middle class, if you profit off of it (e.g.: if you rent anything like land or people) then you're upper class. (The terms here are petite bourgeoisie and bourgeoisie.) It's clear to me that you definitely should feel like you're killing it but i think the reason why we think that is because we grew up in a different place at a different time and the working classes have a prohibition on discussing these things in detail so we dont update our view of the world regularly enough.

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Re:Rich countries tend to have a bigger middle-class, except... by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @04:47PM (#19732673)

“Capital” rather than “land”, Land defines the feudal upper class, capital the capitalist upper class.

But otherwise that's spot on.

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Re:Rich countries tend to have a bigger middle-class, except... by ixtli on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @04:57PM (#19732770)

You're right. The downvotes here are telling :)

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