Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
Even the poor think they're middle class who just have a temporary low.
It takes the market to break them for several years to maybe perhaps make them declare themselves poor.
But in their hearts they will still think they should be middle class and the world around them is treating them unfairly.

Even the rich want to be middle class but the poor chaps are unable to spend their money as fast as it flows in, after a while they just give up as well.
That's the problem with US(and increasingly european) class thinking: you're either poor or you're middle class, the working class has ceased to exist. That's not how it actually is. We've got more and more wage-labourers replacing more independent workers(think the franchise system for shops), so the middle class is smaller, and we've got a record high employment rate meaning that the poor class is smaller.

The working class has become bigger, while the lumpenproletariat and middle class has shrinked(meaning things go according to Marx' predictions).