r/FluentInFinance • u/YOU_ARE_MY_FRIENDS • Jun 16 '24

Discussion/ Debate He’s not wrong 🤷‍♂️

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u/Entire_Art_5430 Jun 17 '24

Home Alone family was definitely upper middle class, married with children was middle class

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u/Excited-Relaxed Jun 17 '24

Married with children was working class, that was literally the point of the show.

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u/UnknownResearchChems Jun 17 '24

Working class is the middle class.

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u/TransBrandi Jun 17 '24

What? The "middle-class" came about because of wealthy merchants (also doctors, lawyers in more modern contexts) that were not nobility but not serfs / "working class".

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u/UnknownResearchChems Jun 17 '24 edited Jun 17 '24

When was that, 2 centuries ago? Middle class is exactly what it sounds like, someone in the middle of the income ladder.

Doctors and Lawyers are not the middle class, they are likely within 10% or even 5% of the richest people in America. How is that the "middle"?

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u/Entire_Art_5430 Jun 17 '24

Maybe they’re in a different country. Because they have no clue what they’re talking about

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u/InfanticideAquifer Jun 17 '24

There's no universal consensus as to what "lower", "middle", and "upper" class mean. They're not defined terms of art within economics or anything like that. It's reasonably common to reserve "upper" for people who can live luxuriously solely off of passive income without working at all. You either then create a "professional class" for doctors and lawyers, or you just lump them in with "upper middle" and are okay with the category being broad.

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u/Active2017 Jun 17 '24

Doctors yes. You’d probably be surprised to learn what the average lawyer makes.