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Reply to "Can we stop referring to households making $200 or 300K a year as "middle class"?"
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[quote=Anonymous]The problem is whenever we start talking about the "rich", people start saying "hey, look over there at the guy who makes twice as much as I do." "Middle class" has a positive connotation, virtuous, hard-working, community-minded, deserving, etc. So everyone wants to identify with it whether they're making $50,000 a year or $300,000 a year. "Rich" in contrast implies evokes images of Ebeneezer Scrooge or Paris Hilton. So - we're all middle class - the clerk at Sears is and so is the doctor and the lawyer. Maybe we should just say people with high incomes. When it's framed as a question of income distribution rather than state of mind", the $300,000 a year earner isn't in the "middle" of anything.[/quote]
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