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🌎 Discussion: The Economy, Fiscal Cliff, National Debt, And Other Financial Issues IV

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A lot of people complain about a lot of people falsely claiming they're middle class, does it actually make sense to say that the middle class is the largest American economic class?

That the bottom 20-25% are poor, the next 50-60% middle class and the top 20-25% rich?

Or especially that the bottom 20% are poor, the next 20% lower middle class, the next 20% middle class/middle middle class, the next 20% upper middle class and the next 20% rich?

And if the middle class is so large and varied it's not really surprising that there are a lot of appeals to them but pretty little actual common interests or solidarity within them.
 


The options do seem to be either steady growth focused at the top, increasing everyone's position but also the amount of inequality, or a lot of uncertainty and shaky, overall less growth for everyone (though those at the top still do best, are hurt least, some others may do unusually better as well).
 
Trump doesn't live in the real world.
 

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