Nowhere Girl on Nostr: One of the reasons "middle class" keeps being redefined upwards in terms of income is ...

One of the reasons "middle class" keeps being redefined upwards in terms of income is because fewer and fewer people can enjoy that standard of living and those who can seek to obfuscate the upward transfer of wealth behind it.

There are increasingly a large mass of working poor people, many highly skilled, college educated, who can still barely afford the necessities, let alone the house and car and family that used to be the markers of adult achievement.