About one in three Americans making six-figure salaries are worried about paying their bills, according to a new survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
I don’t think your definition of middle class is what most people use when they talk about it.
This is really obvious if you think about people remarking on the death of the middle class. They’re not saying that the mean or the median doesn’t exist. They are saying that families like the Simpsons are much less common than they used to be.
Yeah, but like, isn’t that where the majority of people live?
So when talking about “most places” it makes sense for it to be “places most likely for people to live”. If it was literally “most places” America is pretty fucking empty.
I googled it, the average price for an acre in Kansas is like 3.5k.
In “most places” it’s cheap as hell. But no one lives there so why talk about it?
The article is calling people who make between $100k to $150k a year wealthy.
It’s barely middle class for most places now.
Most major metros*
Most places is what I meant.
median household US income is under 80K.
even most major metros are still under 100k.
Do you think making $100k to $150k yearly makes you wealthy?
it puts you into about 60-80% of the american households.
middle class by default would be 40-60%
“It’s barely middle class for most places now.” is hyperbolic
I don’t think your definition of middle class is what most people use when they talk about it.
This is really obvious if you think about people remarking on the death of the middle class. They’re not saying that the mean or the median doesn’t exist. They are saying that families like the Simpsons are much less common than they used to be.
The fact that you are using a reference to corporate media to make your point gave me a chuckle lol
This shit is weaved so deep into social fabric, we are fucked.
Yeah, but like, isn’t that where the majority of people live?
So when talking about “most places” it makes sense for it to be “places most likely for people to live”. If it was literally “most places” America is pretty fucking empty.
I googled it, the average price for an acre in Kansas is like 3.5k.
In “most places” it’s cheap as hell. But no one lives there so why talk about it?