My basic answer is that "middle-class" is an household where some adult members have to actually work to financially sustain the household, but are still able to buy consumer goods beyond mere survival (i.e. rent, food, clothing).
And I perfectly realize that this definition covers perhaps 80% of the population in most Western countries, with, of course, vast differences.
Just speaking for myself.
Christian Lheureux
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> Objet : [HP3000-L] OT: Just who are the Middle Class anymore?
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> Hi All :)
> Ok... serious question which may or may not interest non-U.S. listers
> :)
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> Everyone is talking about the 'middle-class' ... which Dad told me
> back
> in the 70's that our family was the quintessential middle-class family....
> Dad worked, Mom ran the house (and with a kid like me around? That was a
> FULL TIME job! hehe) We had what we needed and some of what we wanted...
> and we had a great life... (editorial by a 41 year old who now knows that
> Dad was actually right!)
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> What is middle-class now? in 2000 ... various campaign rhetoric said
> that $50,000 for a household was poverty... others said it was
> middle-class... Who decides these things??? and on what basis??
>
> Art "Gas is at $2.09 again... hooboy!! Thank God for LPC's" Bahrs
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