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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My main point was that the aforementioned HHI earners who not only insist that $350K provides only for a middle-class lifestyle but - even worse - insist that someone with a $100,000 salary is poor (or lower class) are alienating the majority of American voters. It's so, well....[b]entitled[/b]. I had someone tell me that he gives extra large tips to waitresses because....wait for it.....they probably only make $100,000 a year, and that's pretty hard to get by on.[/quote]

Well, if someone is a UAW worker putting in lots of OT and making $120k per year, then they're still part of the proletariat. Nice income though. Gives them a chance to be millionaire-next-door wealthy. Damn hard to develop the taste, language, education, etc. to move up to middle class or upper middle class though.

Someone making $100,000 is not poor, but you need to understand much more before you insert them blindly into a class.

Don't get me wrong -- all the discussion of "class" is absolutely elitist. American's typically don't talk about class due to these issues. It's much clearer in Europe.

The class distinctions are becoming more apparent in the US and there's a lot of anger when people realize how difficult it is to move up in class and fear about dropping in class. You see this in the insanity about getting your kids into the best universities. You might not get a better education at Harvard than UVa, but you'll have a better path to move to the upper middle class.

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