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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like everyone has missed the entire point of OP, which I took to mean as the massive income and wealth gap in this country. [/quote]

Funny, I feel like that is exactly what many of us have been discussing. There were clear wealth and income gaps decades ago and they clearly have gotten much, much worse.[/quote]

The middle class is shrinking because the upper class has grown:

According to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2018, over 30 percent of U.S. households earned over $100,000 (i.e., the upper class). Fewer than 30 percent of households earned between $50,000 and $100,000 (i.e., the middle class). The share of U.S. households making at least $100,000 has more than tripled since 1967, when just 9 percent of all U.S. households earned that much (all figures are adjusted for inflation).

In 2018, the share of households earning less than $50,000 (i.e., the lower class) dropped below 40 percent for the first time since the U.S. Census data on this metric started to be collected in 1967. Back then, 54 percent of households earned less than $50,000.

https://www.cato.org/blog/middle-class-shrinking-households-become-richer

If you don't like that the data is summarized by Cato (although it's from the U.S. Census Bureau), here's a similar article from Brookings:

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-myth-of-the-disappearing-middle-class/

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