Reply #24: that's one definition

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and I am betting it gets spread by a lot of perfessors who conveniently happen to fall into that $100,000 - $250,000 range. Fock that noise. In the words of Bender "Don't you EVER compare yourself to me."

I happen to have an advanced education and 3 of the four janitors where I work have college degrees (yay for college!!)

The definition of middle class needs to change then because we no longer have a whole bunch of small businessmen and farmers. Most members of the working class think of themselves as middle class, and rightly so, because their income is in the middle.

Marxist phrases like 'working class' have pretty much never been used in my lifetime (since the 1970s). The classes are lower, middle and upper and can be defined by quintiles. Politicians, even from the Democratic party, are always trying to define middle class upward, because that's where their money comes from (and also it's where they themselves live) but such upwardly mobile definitions should not be allowed. The more 'middle class' gets defined upwards, the more those of us near and far below the median lose.