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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Class is real and in many ways getting more entrenched than it's ever been before. I see the classism on DCUM all the time, the NGO no profit worker making sub 100k sneering at West Virginia Trump voters and people are definitely assuming a new kind of class system based on political values. 
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The other major issue is that the middle class is breaking apart. Compared to 30 or 40 years ago, there's far more people in the UMC now, but there's also more and more people in the LMC, with the true middle middle class being hollowed out. That explains why competition for things like close in housing and education costs have soared, because there's many more UMC people chasing after the same basket of goods. This is an excellent overview of how socio-economic groups of people have veered apart into winners and losers rather than a stronger central that is neither one nor the other, aka middle class: https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/not-your-fathers-middle-class

Why this is relevant is because it absolutely redefines what middle class means. For example, for a long time I lived in another country where the average citizen was relatively poor but no one called the middle class "rich" because they were not. They may have been the top 5-10% economically but being middle class was completely separate from being in the middle 50%, and that is what the US is drifting to. Think Victorian Britain too, "middle class" was the top 10% of British society outside the top 1% aka aristocracy. That's why most of the descriptions on here reflect what the typical lifestyle is for what is, economically speaking, the more affluent quarter of America's population. It's still middle class, and it's still the top 25%. [/quote]

This is so true and it's very sad. It's part of the political identity bs to look down on others perceived as a lower class. Unless they're liberal but so far down the class totem pole so as not to be confused with you.[/quote]

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