USA is not a country of "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" no matter how often people say it--we are bougie anti-elitist to the core
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In the USA nobody wants to admit they are rich OR poor Everyone insists that they are middle class
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Are you struggling to pay bills, surviving on welfare? You're lower middle class Do you have 8 houses and a jet? Upper middle class
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This isn't necessarily wrong. The idea that a median citizen should fall in the middle class is quite new
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Originally, "middle" = between peasantry & aristocracy. So between 90% peasantry, 2% peers, you get 8% middle class
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(and it was no contradiction for the richest peasants to be wealthier than the poorest nobles)
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