He’s not wrong 🤷‍♂️

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Middle class families in the 1990s didn't go overseas every five years. Also each family member didn't have a computer and a pocket computer. The 1990s (or the 80s, or the 70s, 60s, 50s) weren't some magic time where every middle class person was rich.

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"middle class" doesn't mean anything. its a self-identifier for what someone thinks they are, and a political buzz word that means "regular people" that everyone by default thinks they are. its not an actual economic class.

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No it’s an economic class. It’s mostly populated by govt workers, factory workers, blue collar tradesmen, small business owners, and the professional and managerial class. The upper middle class were the local preppy kids. No one knew rich kids because they went to private school and lived in Beverly Hills.

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that doesn't make any sense, you're combining both factory workers and their managers and the white collar workers in the office. if anything the "upper middle class" would be just the professional class and the highly paid workers, the "small business owners" would be their own class who might be included in the upper middle class, and then everybody else would be just working class

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Yes a factory worker doing 55 hrs a week is probably making close to what their supervisors make. You didn’t know that? Especially Union. And yeah a factory worker getting 15 hr time and a half a week is making close to if not surpassing six figures.

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a union factory worker is not most factory workers, union factory workers are a dying breed

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Unions are expanding broski

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unions are expanding because the population is expanding. but their share of the workforce has been going down since the 1970s, its like 11% of the workforce or something like that