What did "middle class" mean to you when you were 20-30 something?

[KharmaTrain]

1. A Whole Different World...

My parents were Depression kids...growing up in the 30s and then my father served in WWII and Korea. My mother would say in her later years how the first third of their lives sucked...the second third was living as you describe above and the final third was trying to hang on to what they earned. I recall advice I got about how I should divide each paycheck so that the first week of the month went to paying rent/mortgage, the second week covered food/utilities, the third for car and house needs and the fourth week was there to cover whatever expenses came along...in theory you tried to have a little left over each week that you could put away. Never quite seemed to work that way in my life.

I've always referred to the "middle class" as the working class...as opposed to the ownership class as that's really how our society is now divided. There's been a steady race to the bottom since the "Raygun revolution" to dilute and distort the concept of the "middle class" and "American dream"...

Cheers...